Be like water: Víctor Erice’s Close Your Eyes and Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures of Ghosts are love letters to cinema that take very different approaches
“Long-awaited” isn’t quite the term for Victor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes,” a film that dedicated admirers of the Spanish master may have hoped for, but didn’t dare expect. Instead, Erice’s first feature in 31 years — and only his fourth overall — arrives as something between a desert oasis and a mirage: a shimmery, nourishing …