thirty years later The Quince Sun”Víctor Erice went behind the cameras to shoot Close your eyeshero Manolo Solo, José Coronado and Ana Torrent, whose filming is about to end. Erice concludes in these days the filming that took place in various locations in Granada, Almeria and Asturiasto finish in the next few days Madrid.
Although his relationship with the world of images (short films and video installations) has been almost constant, Erice (Carranza, Vizcaya 1940) has once again directed a story with his own screenplay and one of the Michele Gastambide (winner of a Goya for There will be no peace for the wicked).
Close your eyes tells the story of a disappearance, which revolves around the themes of identity and memory, in which a famous Spanish actor, Julius Arenas, disappears while shooting a movie. Although his body is never found, the police conclude that she has suffered an accident at the seaside. The cast also includes: María León, Petra Martínez, Soledad Villamil, Mario Pardo, Elena MiquelAnd Jose Maria Pou, among others.
Close your eyes is a production led by Tandem filmwhat will hit theaters in 2023 by the hand of Avalonco-produced by La mirada del adiós AIE, together with Pecado Films and Pampa Films in co-production from Argentina and Erice himself with his production company Nautilus Films.
Trajectory
Víctor Erice, has received numerous awards among which the gold shell in 1973 for his first film The spirit of the hiveamong others, and two prizes from the International Jury and Critics al Cannes Film Festival of 1992, of the quince sun.
This film gained special recognition when it was voted best film of its decade by Film libraries and cultural centres of all the world. In 1993 Erice received the National Cinematography Awardand in 1995 the Gold Medal for Merit in the Fine Arts. More recently, in 2014, the Locarno Film Festival awarded him the Leopard of Honor dedicated to his entire career as a filmmaker.
Filming in Granada
The province of Granada is used to posing in the spotlight, there are numerous installations that have noticed the various suggestions and that have immediately seduced thousands of spectators all over the world. Indeed, this fall the beauty and uniqueness of La Calahorra castle came to the fore after the recently launched HBO series, the dragon houseHowever, the north and south, east and west of the province have been immortalized on many occasions in television dramas, documentaries, films and music videos.
In the case of Costa, more and more production companies are interested in its corners to record some scenes. And Almuñécar, Salobreña, Motril understand a lot about it. On its streets or beaches they walked Sean Connery or Richard Lester turn Motrileña vega into a lot Cuba, Manuel Martin Cuenca led to a fire retardant Anthony of the Tower with his Cannibal from Motril or the Carretera de la Cabra, the little ones enjoyed after seeing famous places in Tadeo Jonesor have become the perfect environment for personal adaptation of Bernarda Alba’s house by Federico Garcia Lorca in Bernard by Emilio Ruiz Barrachina for Salobrena.
More recently, the landscapes of Cerro Gordo and La Herradura have framed some scenes of the debut of Macarena Astorga e the house of snails. And last November many people fell in love and learned that time is the best ally with which to heal scars The time that you doy, protagonist of the Netflix miniseries Nadia of Santiago yes alvaro cervantes and the beginning of a love that is forged within the walls of the Hotel Salobreña.
The list of films or series that have been shot on the Granadan coast is extensive and will soon be able to include that of Erice in its list of awards.
