It has been a full three decades since Spanish director Victor Erice made his last feature film, El Sur (1983), and that film came out a decade after his much-heralded debut, The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena, 1973), which is widely considered one of the greatest Spanish films ever made. So, it almost goes without saying that his newest film, Close Your Eyes (Cerrar los ojos), arrives with a great deal of anticipation if only because one can't help but be curious about what an artist of Erice's stature might produce after such a ... Read More