The Eyes of Julia Year: 2010
Genre: Suspense / Horror.
Country: Spain.
Length: 116 minutes.
Address: Guillem Morales.
Cast: Belen Rueda, Lluís Homar, Paul Derqui, Julia Gutiérrez Caba, Joan Dalmau. "Julia is a woman with a degenerative disease of the eye and losing vision gradually. When her twin sister, Sara, blind as a result of the same disease, appears hanged at his home, Julia refuses to accept that this is a suicide and decides to investigate on their own what she senses is murder. As you discover the terrible truth about the last days of the life of her sister, Julia will move deeper and deeper into a world of darkness, until a series of unexplained deaths and disappearances come your way. " Do not take by surprise that, after the name of Guillermo del Toro as a producer, and Belen Rueda in front as the protagonist, the film of suspense and terror continues to grow exponentially. In 2007, the duo managed to excel in particular
The Orphanage (
review) and before that, Del Toro imploded to half the world with
Pan's Labyrinth . The second feature of Guillem Morales (the first, added a few short, was
The Uncertain Inhabitant ) does not arrive at the foot of Del Toro's film, and hardly reaches the level of The Orphanage, but it is a laudable effort to build a network of fear to the viewer from the shadows.
Julia has just lost her twin sister Sara. Apparently, everything indicates it was suicide, but a couple of things in the house at the time of death cast doubt Julia otherwise, that his sister was viciously murdered, although no one, not even her husband Isaac, I believe. I do not spend even ten minutes into the main character goes on a campaign to unravel this mystery. What Da Vinci Code Catalan, Julia continues to trail traces the path of a mysterious shadow, which is always one step ahead of her. Always
until irreversible blindness ubiquitous ghost will eat away the visual health of Julia with every strike of stress that occurs (followed increasing attacks because of the stress to which it is submitted) During the first part of film The development is very interesting and disturbing, besides wanting to know the truth of whether it was suicide or not, is also losing the vision of Julia, a factor that can not distinguish whether the truth will come out before she is blind ...
There are, however, a very important level down the middle of the movie where the suspense that was growing slowly disappears with a touch of drama to continue to the end with a game of cat and mouse bloody and wholly unnecessary, because the film should not have shifted so radically to the horror. It is as if the director felt that his story was taking shape and at least he shoehorned a touch of blood to the fans.
Bad move, because unconfigured bloody moment what had been set so far. To make matters worse, there are some really implausible that involcuran to a baby ward and a moment near the end with the old blind woman in the neighborhood. Ridiculous. But this is like the yin and yang, because both have stupid moments, but on the other hand, both star trails brutal images: one with a knife and a wall, and the other with an eye and a syringe. One is a dumb move by the script and the other is a masterful touch of physical horror.
Not to be outdone, the film Guillem Morales has sections on art and media, as well as their patriotic fellows: on the side of the cast, Belén Rueda surprised again with a powerful character, simple and highly attuned to the role of final
MILF girl that stood out in The Orphanage, the English has a fascinating and raises the level level of this proposal to the stratosphere with each gesture (especially when she is blind). A pity that remerita straitjacket that foreshadow everything with what need. Lluís Homar, as always, good secondary and honor because he always complies with part. The revelation here is Paul Derqui, creepy as the villain of the moment, an obscure and sad in equal parts.
Technically, the English have the post. I do not know if all the scripts are good, but at least one good meal for the eyes do: Photography in the Eyes of Julia's is great, super atmosphere, dark, dark, not to lose touch reflected in the ideas of the film. The neighborhood where all the action is closed and interconnected by backyards, and whenever it is raining. Ace for the English.
If Guillem Morales recently commented that it was inadequate as a writer, the pasta is lacking in that respect you have left over as director, knows how to direct his cast, and how to follow them around with the camera. The opening scene, I feel like a robbery
The Eye , at least the 2008 version and it takes away spots, but for example, the scene of the murderer escaped down a corridor to be turning as they run past perfect, and the times at which the person took the girl to see through their eyes and feel how it impairs your vision are great and help you understand a little more prickly feelings and situation of the protagonist. Visually impeccable.
The Eyes of Julia is a great story of mystery and suspense, until he decides to change the heading and redirected to the horror, the land on which anxiety. It may seem long, but the magnetism of Belén Rueda and address Guillem Morales to make the film disrupts not (entirely). Another good addition to the English genre cinema, which has become the new France with regard to horror.
Grade: B
2 º ESO - Camponaraya 
