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Cannes Video Day 3: Diego Lerman’s La mirada invisible (The Invisible Eye)

Winner of the Sundance/NHK Int. Filmmakers Award and part of Cannes’ Atelier de la Cinefondation, Diego Lerman’s La mirada invisible works from an extremely sharp screenplay, and much like how the Chilean film Tony Manero symbolically made one point by referencing another, this demonstrates that repression doesn’t achieve the best of results – whether it’s military coup or a young women trying to break free. Photography is crisp and Julieta Zylberberg eventually manages to lasso the viewer onto her side – which is not an easy task with her type of character.

Eric Lavallée

Published on May 15, 2010

Winner of the Sundance/NHK Int. Filmmakers Award and part of Cannes’ Atelier de la Cinefondation, Diego Lerman’s La mirada invisible works from an extremely sharp screenplay, and much like how the Chilean film Tony Manero symbolically made one point by referencing another, this demonstrates that repression doesn’t achieve the best of results – whether it’s military coup or a young women trying to break free. Photography is crisp and Julieta Zylberberg eventually manages to lasso the viewer onto her side – which is not an easy task with her type of character.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).