“A brilliant puzzlebox caught on celluloid…wholly original.”—Austin Chronicle
Nothing is what it appears to be in Alejandro Amenábar’s breakout international success, one of the most intriguing and engrossing films of the 1990s. A vain millionaire (Eduardo Noriega) readies himself for his wedding. An old girlfriend (Najwa Nimri) appears for a final fling, but her ultimate plan leaves him brutally disfigured. Losing his fortune and his fiancée (Penélope Cruz), his sanity begins to crumble. Recently remade (by Amenábar) with Tom Cruise as Vanilla Sky (also available here on Jaman).