TS Carl Dreyer vs. Victor Erice

He’s back! From the dead!

I saw Close Your Eyes last weekend, my first time in a cinema since January 2020. There's a line of dialogue that says there haven't been any miracles in film since Carl Dreyer, suggesting where Erice comes down on the thread question.
He's retained some of the looser structure of El sol del membrillo in a quasi-investigative story. I guess I'm forgiving of some of the longueurs here considering he's owed some of our time, decades since his last film. In a way the film provides a missing piece to the ideas about film in his earlier works, it does feel like all this time he was leading to this statement about the potential and power of the movies.

I laughed out loud at the Dreyer line.

For whatever reason I didn’t mind the longueurs either. I went in being predisposed to like it but still felt days later that the whole thing held together pretty well.

The film it somehow reminded me the most of wasn’t one that was directly referenced but Monty Hellman’s final film, ROAD TO NOWHERE. I went looking and soon found this: https://www.lafuriaumana.com/victor-erice-a-postcard-for-monte-hellman/

Although I did also wonder if the space where they showed the film was the same one where they showed FRANKENSTEIN in THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE.