Abre los ojos is a 1997 Spanish film directed by Alejandro Amenábar which was written by himself and Mateo Gil. It stars Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Fele Martínez and Najwa Nimri. In 2002, Open Your Eyes was ranked #84 in the Top 100 Sci-Fi List by the Online Film Critics Society. From a prison cell in Madrid, César , a 25-year-old in a prosthetic mask, tells his story to psychiatrist Antonio . Flashbacks reveal the following events: good-looking César is attractive to women. At his birthday party, he flirts with Sofía , the girlfriend of his best friend... Pelayo . Later on, he takes her home and stays the night, although they don't sleep together. The next morning, César's obsessive ex-lover Nuria pulls up outside Sofia's flat and when she spots César leaving in the morning, she offers him a ride back to her apartment to have sex. On the way there, however, she intentionally crashes the car, committing suicide, and César is horribly disfigured, beyond the help of cosmetic surgery. Sofía can't bear to see him like this and goes back to Pelayo.
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| Release date: | December 19, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Alejandro Amenábar |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 117 Minutes |
| Producer: | Fernando Bovaira, José Luis Cuerda |
| Editor: | María Elena Sáinz de Rozas |
| Music by: | Alejandro Amenábar, Mariano Marín |
| Cinematography: | Hans Burmann |
| Screenplay by: | Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil |
| Genre: | Thriller |