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Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes

Country: Chile | Germany | Argentina , Language: Spanish, 86 mins

Original Title

Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos
  • Director: José Luis Torres Leiva
  • Writer: José Luis Torres Leiva

CGiii Comment

The great leveler...Death. It comes to us all.

This is - truly - an agonising watch. Not just because of the subject matter...a woman with terminal cancer refuses any further treatment...she has reached her enough-is-enough. Her wife has to grin and bear her decision. When someone makes such a mighty decision as this, to disagree with it is akin to shouting at clouds...it's pointless, it's worthless...and, a little selfish. But...every minute together counts.

This is not one of those bucket list finales. This is like reading the final chapter of a tragic book, José Luis Torres Leiva - quite literally - gives these ladies neither background nor backstory. Leaving you to guess [or, colourfully imagine] the series of events that led to where these ladies are now. That - indeed - is a very big ask.

The success of the film really does rely on your own state of mind...some will - indeed - find it too slow and excessively morose. Others will be able to relate and contemplate...to and over this finality. It is a difficult and paradoxical film...you see, there really is nothing difficult about death, it happens...regardless.

Definitely...a film that supplies much food for existential thought.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Ana (Amparo Noguera) and María (Julieta Figueroa) have been a couple for two decades. They are first seen with their heads together, almost as one. Ana is a senior nurse in a hospital, María a mathematics teacher. María has terminal cancer, but has refused further treatment. The couple leave their home for a cabin in the countryside, where María’s storytelling – two tales that ‘come alive’ before the viewer – offers reflections on love, desire and the power of narrative. Rooted in two breathtaking performances of Bergmanesque intensity and imbued with a sense of mystery that is maintained to the end, this is a film of rare beauty where the emotional lives of its protagonists resonate across the broader environmental canvas of post-Pinochet Chile.

Maria Delgado

Cast & Characters

Julieta Figueroa as Maria;
Amparo Noguera as Ana