Open Your Eyes (1997 film)

Open Your Eyes
Open Your Eyes
	Spanish release poster
Directed by	Alejandro Amenábar
Written by	Alejandro Amenábar; Mateo Gil
Produced by	Fernando Bovaira; José Luis Cuerda
Starring	Eduardo Noriega; Penélope Cruz; Chete Lera; Fele Martínez; Najwa Nimri;
Cinematography	Hans Burmann
Edited by	María Elena Sáinz de Rozas
Music by	Alejandro Amenábar; Mariano Marín
Production; companies	Las Producciones del Escorpión; Sogetel; Les Films Alain Sarde; Lucky Red;
Distributed by	Sogepaq (Spain); AFMD (France);
Release date	19 December 1997 (Spain);
Running time	117 minutes
Countries	Spain; France; Italy
Language	Spanish
Budget	370 million ₧
Box office	$9 million

Abre los ojos (English: Open Your Eyes) is a 1997 Spanish film directed and co-scored by Alejandro Amenábar & written by Amenábar and Mateo Gil. It stars Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez and Najwa Nimri. In 2002, Open Your Eyes was ranked no. 84 in the Top 100 Sci-Fi List by the Online Film Critics Society.^[5]

The film's intersecting planes of dream and reality have prompted some critics to suggest comparisons to Calderón de la Barca's 1635 play Life Is a Dream.^[6]^[7]^[8] An American remake entitled Vanilla Sky, directed by Cameron Crowe, was released in 2001, with Penélope Cruz reprising her role.

^ Open Your Eyes at Rotten Tomatoes (movie info). Retrieved 6 July 2016.
^ Open Your Eyes at AllMovie. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
^ Open Your Eyes at IMDb. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
^ "Abre los Ojos". British Film Institute. London. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
^ Top 100 Sci-Fi List, Online Film Critics Society
^ Perri, Dennis (1 September 2008). "Amenabar's Abre los ojos: the posthuman subject". Hispanofila. The Free Library.
^ Robertson, Sandra (2000). "Life is Virtual Dream: Amenábar Reading Calderón (pp. 115-25)". In Cabello-Castellet, George; Martí-Olivella, Jaume; Wood, Guy H. (eds.). Cine-Lit 2000. Essays on hispanic film and fiction (in Spanish). Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University. ISBN 0-9631927-3-6. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
^ Xuan, Jing (2003). "Calderón y el cine La vida es sueño y Abre los ojos de Alejandro Amenábar (pp. 479-92)". In Tietz, Manfred (ed.). Teatro Calderoniano Sobre el Tablado. Calderón y Su Puesta en Escena a Través de Los Siglos (in Spanish). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3-515-08260-0. Retrieved 6 July 2016.

[1] Open Your Eyes at Rotten Tomatoes (movie info). Retrieved 6 July 2016.

[2] Open Your Eyes at AllMovie. Retrieved 6 July 2016.

[3] Open Your Eyes at IMDb. Retrieved 6 July 2016.

[bfi-4] "Abre los Ojos". British Film Institute. London. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2016.

[5] Top 100 Sci-Fi List, Online Film Critics Society

[6] Perri, Dennis (1 September 2008). "Amenabar's Abre los ojos: the posthuman subject". Hispanofila. The Free Library.

[7] Robertson, Sandra (2000). "Life is Virtual Dream: Amenábar Reading Calderón (pp. 115-25)". In Cabello-Castellet, George; Martí-Olivella, Jaume; Wood, Guy H. (eds.). Cine-Lit 2000. Essays on hispanic film and fiction (in Spanish). Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University. ISBN 0-9631927-3-6. Retrieved 6 July 2016.

[8] Xuan, Jing (2003). "Calderón y el cine La vida es sueño y Abre los ojos de Alejandro Amenábar (pp. 479-92)". In Tietz, Manfred (ed.). Teatro Calderoniano Sobre el Tablado. Calderón y Su Puesta en Escena a Través de Los Siglos (in Spanish). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3-515-08260-0. Retrieved 6 July 2016.

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