Take My Eyes (2003)
(Te doy mis ojos)
Country: SP
Technical: col 109m
Director: Icíar Bollaín
Cast: Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Peña
Synopsis:
An abused mother takes her son and moves in with her sister, but her husband undergoes therapy and promises to be better, so she moves back with him. Meanwhile her work as a museum attendant gives her an appetite for a wider taste of life and new friendships.
Review:
Remarkable for its rounded treatment of its subject - the wife's emotional bondage to her husband, her semi-aware martyrdom, is given as much attention as the latter's well-intentioned but ultimately half-hearted attempts to master his inner demons - this sympathetic domestic drama is as potent as it is at times difficult to watch. The husband's uncontrollable anger is by implication linked to the Spanish male's cosseted existence and demand for unconditional love.
(Te doy mis ojos)
Country: SP
Technical: col 109m
Director: Icíar Bollaín
Cast: Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Peña
Synopsis:
An abused mother takes her son and moves in with her sister, but her husband undergoes therapy and promises to be better, so she moves back with him. Meanwhile her work as a museum attendant gives her an appetite for a wider taste of life and new friendships.
Review:
Remarkable for its rounded treatment of its subject - the wife's emotional bondage to her husband, her semi-aware martyrdom, is given as much attention as the latter's well-intentioned but ultimately half-hearted attempts to master his inner demons - this sympathetic domestic drama is as potent as it is at times difficult to watch. The husband's uncontrollable anger is by implication linked to the Spanish male's cosseted existence and demand for unconditional love.
(Te doy mis ojos)
Country: SP
Technical: col 109m
Director: Icíar Bollaín
Cast: Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Peña
Synopsis:
An abused mother takes her son and moves in with her sister, but her husband undergoes therapy and promises to be better, so she moves back with him. Meanwhile her work as a museum attendant gives her an appetite for a wider taste of life and new friendships.
Review:
Remarkable for its rounded treatment of its subject - the wife's emotional bondage to her husband, her semi-aware martyrdom, is given as much attention as the latter's well-intentioned but ultimately half-hearted attempts to master his inner demons - this sympathetic domestic drama is as potent as it is at times difficult to watch. The husband's uncontrollable anger is by implication linked to the Spanish male's cosseted existence and demand for unconditional love.