For a film titled Julia's Eyes, Belen Rueda's, whom plays the titular character, has very unremarkable eyes, even though much of screen time revolves around them. None the matter, the actress proves she can carry a role in a thriller which thrives thematically but wanders in quality and not always in the good direction.
As thrills are scarce, the story centers on Julia, whose blind twin sister Sara is killed by an unknown man, whom Sara (also played by Rueda) has been involved with. Only the police believes she committed suicide. As Julia is driven to investigate her sister's death, she loses her own eye sight to a series of small, stress-induced strokes. The more she looks for her sister's killer, the less she is able to see.
This is a kind of a genius idea, not only on plot level, but on character level too. We know Julia is a determined woman and loves her sister very much, even though they we never see them together and have no idea what their relationship has been like.
As for the issue of themes, there is much to be said about seeing and being and not being seen by other people, which is what the film excels at. If not so much with everything else.
As thrills are scarce, the story centers on Julia, whose blind twin sister Sara is killed by an unknown man, whom Sara (also played by Rueda) has been involved with. Only the police believes she committed suicide. As Julia is driven to investigate her sister's death, she loses her own eye sight to a series of small, stress-induced strokes. The more she looks for her sister's killer, the less she is able to see.
This is a kind of a genius idea, not only on plot level, but on character level too. We know Julia is a determined woman and loves her sister very much, even though they we never see them together and have no idea what their relationship has been like.
As for the issue of themes, there is much to be said about seeing and being and not being seen by other people, which is what the film excels at. If not so much with everything else.