May 18, 2008 2:54 pm
By: tiffreviews
Screen Daily - A film its actors will never see, Blind Loves traces four blind people in the Slovak Republic and investigates, in a seamless meld of documentary and fiction, how they experience love. Touching and original, this first full-length outing from documentary and music-video director Juraj Lehotsky works by unsettling the audience: the question of who’s acting (and how much) becomes tangled up with issues about the boundary between sighted and non-sighted perceptions of the world to intriguing effect.
The film’s quirky aesthetic and refusal to fill in conventional backstories for its four subjects will limit the audience, but this charming and thought-provoking curio could easily prove to be a hit on the indie circuit (in fact, sales at Cannes are already brisk).
The first story is that of Peter, a blind music teacher who lives with his blind wife in an apartment where the television is on much of the time. We see him coach his blind pupils in a music school where nobody bothers to turn the lights on when it gets dark; and in one of the film’s most gloriously bizarre passages, reminiscent of Jan Svankmajer, we see him walking in stop-motion animation under a watery stained-glass sea, where he has a close encounter with a cute animated octopus… [Full Story]
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