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March 2005
Take My Eyes(Te Doy Mis Ojos) |
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By Kam Williams
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Feminist Melodrama Seriously Addresses Battered Women’s Syndrome For some reason, Pilar (Laia Marull) decides that this is the last straw, when her abusive husband, Antonio (Luis Tosar), flies into a rage, leaving her bloody and beaten once again. The battered housewife, her young son, Juan (Nicolas Fernandez Luna) in tow, escapes in the middle of the wintry night, only wearing slippers and the clothes on their backs. Set in the scenic Spanish city of Toledo, director Bollain does a magnificent job of contrasting the wide-open, generous panoramas provided by the breathtaking backdrop with the never ending, claustrophobic nightmare of a protagonist too gripped with fear to appreciate her surroundings. Alternately suspenseful, steamy and shocking, Take My Eyes is an absorbing psychological thriller, ala Hitchcock, which thoroughly entertains while simultaneously delivering its subtle feminist message. Excellent (4 stars) |
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