Víctor Erice's 2023 mystery-thriller pairs a blind musician's investigation with a race against time, unfolding across Spain and Argentina at a deliberate, absorbing pace.
What is Close Your Eyes about?
A blind musician sets out to trace a chain of clues that leads him toward whoever has been responsible for a string of killings, working through fragments of testimony and memory that others have overlooked. His search is never just academic: the woman he loves is in danger, and every piece of information he gathers narrows the window he has to act before it's too late. Erice builds the film less as a conventional whodunit and more as a patient character study, letting silences, sound, and the texture of place carry as much weight as dialogue. The Spanish-Argentine setting gives the story a wide canvas, moving between quiet domestic spaces and the kind of open, atmospheric locations that let tension build slowly rather than through jump-scare shocks. It's a film that trusts its audience to sit with ambiguity, favoring mood and craft over conventional thriller mechanics.
About the cast
Manolo Solo leads the ensemble, with Jose Coronado, Ana Torrent, Petra Martínez, María León, Mario Pardo, Helena Miquel, and Antonio Dechent filling out a cast drawn largely from Spanish cinema's veteran ranks.
Context & significance
Directed by Víctor Erice — a filmmaker known for working sparingly and deliberately across a long career — Close Your Eyes is a 2023 Spanish-Argentine co-production that blends crime, mystery, and thriller elements without leaning on genre shorthand. At 144 minutes, it gives itself considerably more room than a typical mystery to develop atmosphere and character before tightening toward its resolution, a pace that rewards viewers looking for something more measured than a standard procedural.
Watching Close Your Eyes on Ktime
Close Your Eyes streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making Erice's deliberate storytelling accessible to Farsi-speaking audiences. A free K-Time account login is all that's required, and the entire platform experience is built around a Farsi-first interface for the Iranian diaspora.