8 out of 9 people found the following review helpful:

slow moving, but interesting psychology

carolinethefirst from , 10th May, 2009

I guess typical in many ways of an art house film, Blue Eyelids relies on lingering shots and selective focusing and zooming to emphasise the point. I found this to become rather tedious after a while, and wished the film would gather a little pace. That aside the film has some funny moments, and doesnt force upon us any conclusions or judgements about the two protagonists. We are merely given a frank account of our vulnerability in society, our isolation, and the way in which we all use each other, in a way that not always is detrimental. Overall I did enjoy the film, the leads were very well cast.

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

blue eyelids

paddo19 from , 6th November, 2009

terrible film,didnt realise it was in foreign language,tried to follow film but story was awful

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1 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Blue Eyelids

A Customer from Newtown, 12th October, 2009

This film about two inexplicably isolated people won admirers at Cannes, but great performances and cinematography don't make up for a plotline slightly less exciting than paint drying. Admirable, but dull!

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Little narrative, but full of suppressed feelings

A Customer from Innerleithen, 27th February, 2010

Nothing much happens in this film, but I kept watching drawn in by the wealth of bottled-up emotions bubbling under the surface in the two lead characters. The actors are very good at playing two people unable to show their true feelings to each other. For most of the hour and half it's not a feel-good movie, but worth seeing.

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0 out of 1 people found the following review helpful:

Deifinitely not Blue Velvet

Nitaray from from Farnham, 11th November, 2009

If you can go the distance, this is a rather lovely and sweetly simple story about two lonely and isolated people ,stuck in dead-end jobs, who meet after many years through a chance encounter. Will they fall in love? Will their dreadfully humdrum lives change overnight? We suspect not. Most of all, it 's a reminder that not all relationships are based on physical attraction. Mutual need is the keynote in this thought- provoking film from Mexican director Ernesto Contreras. Personally, I loved it.The actors are completely convincing in what must have been quite challenging roles.And although their apparent lack of emotion and almost expressionless faces, coupled with the long pauses and silences throughout the film are testing, I think it will probably be one to remember. I will certainly look forward to seeing more from this talented young director.

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