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Haunting insights on blindness
MARIA DUARTE recommends an emotive account of what happens to a man after he loses his sight
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
Notes on Blindness (U)
Directed by Pete Middleton and James Spinney
4/5
THIS extraordinarily frank and candid documentary, based on the audio diary theologian and academic John M Hull made when struck down by blindness, is incredibly illuminating.
Film-makers Pete Middleton and James Spinney took his recordings and have actors lip-syncing his words and those of his family, delivering a gripping and haunting personal account of one man’s experience which is at times heartbreaking.
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