Close My Eyes (1991)

Close My Eyes (1991)
Director:Stephen Poliakoff
Writer: Stephen Poliakoff
Release Date: 6 September 1991 (UK)
Genre: Drama - Romance


* Cast:


Alan Rickman ... Sinclair
Clive Owen ... Richard
Saskia Reeves ... Natalie
Karl Johnson ... Colin
Lesley Sharp ... Jessica
Kate Gartside ... Paula
Karen Knight ... Philippa
Niall Buggy ... Geof
Campbell Morrison ... Scotsman
Annie Hayes ... Receptionist
Maxwell Hutcheon ... Interviewee
Geraldine Somerville ... Natalie's Boss
Helen FitzGerald ... Scottish Girl
Christopher Barr ... Noley
Gordon Salkilld ... Hotel Porter



* Awards:


- Evening Standard British Film Awards:

*Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actor(Alan Rickman) and Best Film



- London Critics Circle Film Awards:

*1992 ALFS Award: British Actor of the Year (Alan Rickman)




- Seattle International Film Festival:

*1991 Golden Space Needle Award: Best Actor (Alan Rickman)



* Plot:


After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously obsessional.


Their private intensity (& working class origins) contrast with the middle-class, inhibited, stuffy public scenes we see in the Richmond world into which Natalie has moved with her marriage.


As the guilt and intensity of the siblings increases we seem to be heading for disaster, a forboding which increases when Natalie's husband Sinclair finds out.