The Eyes Closed

Protagonist is the young actor Yvan During a tour he witnesses the inexplicable suicide of one of his fellow actors Back in Paris he tells Xénie the exlover of the dead actor Xénie is in love with Yvan but the latter sinks deeper and deeper into a personal crisis At a certain point he acts being blind and buys a pair of glasses with black lenses He is fascinated by his new more restricted manner of seeing and refuses to open his eyes Reality makes way for his more and more obsessive imagination The mixture of fantasy and reality meant that Santonis approach was compared with that of Buñuel