The Eyes Closed
1974, French. Directed by Joël Santoni.
Protagonist is the young actor Yvan. During a tour, he witnesses the inexplicable suicide of one of his fellow actors. Back in Paris he tells Xénie, the ex-lover of the dead actor. Xénie is in love with Yvan, but the latter sinks deeper and deeper into a personal crisis. At a certain point he acts being blind and buys a pair of glasses with black lenses. He is fascinated by his new, more restricted manner of seeing and refuses to open his eyes. Reality makes way for his more and more obsessive imagination. The mixture of fantasy and reality meant that Santoni's approach was compared with that of Buñuel.
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- French
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- Released
- 5 April 1974
- Original title
- Les Yeux fermés
- Country
- France
- Written by
- Claude Breuer, Jeanne Bronner, Joël Santoni
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The Eyes Closed runs 118 minutes (1h 58m).
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The Eyes Closed isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 5 April 1974. (Checked 11 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Eyes Closed?
The Eyes Closed (1974) was directed by Joël Santoni and stars Gérard Desarthe, Lorraine Rainer, Marcel Dalio.