
In their secluded farmhouse, a mother (a former surgeon) teaches her daughter, Francisca, anatomy, and how life and death are not to be feared. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of their family life, and deeply traumatises Francisca, but also awakening curiosities. Years later, Francisca clings to her increasingly distant father, but the trauma she sustained reawaken when her desire to connect with the world around her takes on a dark form.... (Full plot summary below)
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In their secluded farmhouse, a mother (a former surgeon) teaches her daughter, Francisca, anatomy, and how life and death are not to be feared. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the idyll of their family life, and deeply traumatises Francisca, but also awakening curiosities. Years later, Francisca clings to her increasingly distant father, but the trauma she sustained reawaken when her desire to connect with the world around her takes on a dark form.
Leave your thoughts about The Eyes of My Mother.
| Time OutJoshua RothkopfIf you can stomach the fear, go. Confident hands created this film. Its nightmare lingers for weeks. |
| The Blue LensesAlexandra Heller-NicholasThe Eyes of My Mother is an insightful, meaningful, and exquisitely beautiful horror film, and undoubtedly one of the genre's most important offerings of 2016. |
| El antepenúltimo mohicanoJosé MartínA film with beautiful aesthetics, although it tells a terrible story with a disconcerting naturalness. [Full review in Spanish] |
| Reel Talk OnlineCandice FrederickWith The Eyes of My Mother, Pesce explores the nature of human instinct and arrested development in a way that is uncomfortable to watch yet immersive just the same. |
| CineVueMartyn ConterioA film to chill the spine and haunt the mind, Nicolas Pesce has achieved cinematic glory. |
| Cinemalogue.comTodd JorgensonWhile the deliberately paced film subverts genre expectations with some stylish visual flourishes, any deeper meaning behind the nonchalant gore and the psychological effects on its protagonist remains muddled. |
| VarietyGuy LodgePesce’s spare script doesn’t seek to obscure, but its quiet, matter-of-fact handling of drastic dramatic events will catch some off-guard. |
| Consequence of SoundJustin GerberThough it doesn’t end with quite the punctuation it deserves, The Eyes of My Mother is a beautiful nightmare from start to finish. |
| Sight and SoundAnton BitelPesce's colourless presentation and elliptical editing offer a blinkered perspective on events which replicates both the protagonist's ocular obsessions and the mutual incomprehension of Francisca and those she encounters. |
| Eye for FilmJennie KermodeThe Eyes Of My Mother is melancholy and poetic, a picture of loneliness, its suffocated passions escaping only in the thundering vocals that accompany the closing credits. |