One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
Acting
Laia Marull and Luis Tosar are violently good. Goya Awards swept for a reason.
Direction
Bollaín refuses to make Antonio a monster—he's worse: utterly human.
Writing
The title's metaphor unfolds like a knife. 'Take my eyes' = give me your blindness.
Director
Icíar Bollaín
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Laia Marull won Best Actress at San Sebastián and the Goyas; Luis Tosar won Best Actor. First film to sweep both since the 1980s.
Shot in Toledo, the film weaponizes Spain's Catholic visual heritage—saints watching, churches offering no sanctuary. Bollaín said she wanted 'the beauty to hurt.'
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