A winner at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, this true-story tale depicts the audio tape diaries of John Hull, a...
A winner at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, this true-story tale depicts the audio tape diaries of John Hull, a man who kept track of his experience of suddenly going blind in the '80s.
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95 %40 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
70 %2,484 reviewsAudience score rating
"The filmmakers create art out of what too often is a documentary stopgap."
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Village Voice
Village Voice"Hull's observations - an audio diary - provide plenty of insight and engagement."
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Total Film
Total Film"The depiction of early 1980s Britain - dark, rainy, almost entirely brown - is especially vivid."
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Time Out
Time Out"The tone of the narration is so wrenchingly honest that the film never lapses into self-pity or relies on mystical platitudes."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"The tone is sober, unflashy, and Hull's reflections on God are presented without any hectoring or special pleading. Affecting and profoundly intelligent."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Achingly poignant and startlingly immediate."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"A deeply sensitive interpretation of the subject's reflective testament on disability."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterNotes on Blindness | Details
- Runtime
- 90
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of origin
- UK
