Abre los ojos

The Spanish film Cameron Crowe later remade as Vanilla Sky, and the original is leaner and stranger. Cesar is rich, vain and used to getting what he wants until a car crash leaves his face wrecked and his grip on reality with it. Amenabar tells it from inside a prison cell, in flashback, as a psychologist tries to untangle what actually happened. The plot keeps pulling the floor out, but the real subject is a man who built a life on his looks and has to find out what is left without them.