Pilar is a disturbed wife who loves and cares about her husband Antonio, but can't take it no more. One night she takes her son Juan and just the most necessary things and leaves the flat. This entire prologue introduction is done in an almost horror-set up sequences where we the viewers do realize that in this marriage something is seriously wrong.
As the husband comes back home from his boring and monotonous job his temper takes over, and here we discover how fearful he is.She knows that deep inside she is still his sunshine, love, and above all she did "gave him" her eyes. Silently violent this tale of domestic violence swept clean Spanish national Goya awards and earned more than 20 festival prizes all over the world in 2003. Luis Tosar in the lead actor role is absolutely mesmerizing and stomach-twisting tense, while Laia Marull as a fragile housewife is portrayed to the perfection. This brave movie which raises a range of issues especially from a female perspective of how to survive a violent, broken, non functional unity must be seen by as many viewers as possible. Iciar Bollain is a director worth following. Marriage never looked so scary.
As the husband comes back home from his boring and monotonous job his temper takes over, and here we discover how fearful he is.She knows that deep inside she is still his sunshine, love, and above all she did "gave him" her eyes. Silently violent this tale of domestic violence swept clean Spanish national Goya awards and earned more than 20 festival prizes all over the world in 2003. Luis Tosar in the lead actor role is absolutely mesmerizing and stomach-twisting tense, while Laia Marull as a fragile housewife is portrayed to the perfection. This brave movie which raises a range of issues especially from a female perspective of how to survive a violent, broken, non functional unity must be seen by as many viewers as possible. Iciar Bollain is a director worth following. Marriage never looked so scary.