Notes On Blindness

English writer and theologian John Hull, who went blind in the early 1980s and kept an audio diary of his experience, is the subject of this thought-provoking film, which takes an unusual if not always successful approach to the documentary form.

Achingly poignant and startlingly immediate

A deeply sensitive interpretation of the subject's reflective testament on disability.

Quite often, the filmmakers go for blurry scenery, surreal events and odd camera shots that feel more like gimmicks than an accurate representation of its subject's affliction.

The filmmakers create art out of what too often is a documentary stopgap.

The tone of the narration is so wrenchingly honest that the film never lapses into self-pity or relies on mystical platitudes.

Notes on Blindness is a moving, intimate documentary, a triumph of sound and image, and a poetic examination of love, loss, memory and marriage.

Sighted viewers should be thankful enough; for cinemagoers who've suffered or who are suffering sight problems, Notes on Blindness might well comprise the most powerful -- and most empowering -- audio-described screening in years.

This daring re-enactment of one man's going blind is not only successful, but deeply moving and enlightening.

A genuinely moving, profound and haunting experience that might change the way you perceive the sights and sounds around you.

Its fatal mistake is to make up for blindness, instead of embracing it as something other than a liability.