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Beginning to see the light?
dbdumonteil1 May 2013
This MTV work by Luis Bunuel's son is downright embarrassing ;its first part is realistic to a fault but halfway through ,it becomes weird to end up in an eerie way ,à la "carnival of souls".

A man (François Cluzet) 's brother has nasty habits and dangerous shady "friends " ;he gets killed and Cluzet becomes blind ;he won't accept that he should become an object of pity and he severs all links with his family ,particularly with an over possessive mom (Dora Doll).Although reluctant,he finally agrees physical therapy and learns Braille ,mainly to take revenge on those who are responsible for his tragedy;there is the obligatory love story between the handicapped hero and the person who takes care of him.

The second part introduces a young boy and the strange relationship he has with his mother,and deals with the revenge ;less conventional,it's difficult to see what Juan Bunuel is driving at .The last pictures may puzzle the viewer.
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An eye for an eye
searchanddestroy-16 June 2024
This blind gunfighter plot reminded me an US movie starring Patrick Wayne, back in 1966 - AN EYE FOR AN EYE - but no one had noticed it, of course.... François Cluzet in a very early good performance, not that easy, and an excellent and convincing performance of Henri Lambert in a villain character. Here, you have two parts: the young woman segment, and the young boy one. The kid part is a bit annoying, I prefered the girl in love with the blind man. I like this feature, faithfully adapted from Robert Destanque's novel, and pretty dark, gloomy. And the training methods to teach the blind man how to shoot - the clock method - looks very the same with the film, a western, I just mention above - AN EYE FOR AN EYE.....
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