Blind
After losing her sight, a Norwegian writer retreats into an apartment-bound world where desire, fear, and invention steadily dissolve the boundary between fantasy and reality.
Overview
A woman's struggle with her new reality reveals the depths of her inner turmoil.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- None
- witty
- sensual
- melancholic
- quiet night viewing
- arthouse film night
What critics said
Critics broadly acclaimed Eskil Vogt's inventive directorial debut for its ambitious construction, psychological insight, and striking blend of tragic, playful, sensual, and cerebral elements.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Ingrid's repressed fantasies and invented scenarios progressively take over the apparent domestic reality of the apartment.
The apartment's walls, rooms, and imagined spatial arrangements reflect Ingrid's need for control after losing her sight.
Infidelity, internet pornography, voyeurism, and Ingrid's fantasies connect erotic longing with isolation and spectatorship.
Ingrid retreats into authorship and elaborate imagined relationships to manage blindness, loneliness, and repressed fear.
Films like Blind, and why
Adaptation.
formally playful psychological drama about authorship, fantasy, and unstable reality
Stranger than Fiction
witty and melancholic exploration of loneliness, interior fantasy, and emotional projection
The Science of Sleep
intimate surreal drama using subjective imagination to examine isolation and desire
Synecdoche, New York
cerebral relationship drama where narrative invention and emotional reality continually overlap
Movie Details
- Director
- Eskil Vogt
- Release Date
- 2014-02-28
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 (244)
Cast
- Ellen Dorrit Petersen
- Henrik Rafaelsen
- Vera Vitali
- Marius Kolbenstvedt
- Stella Kvam Young
- Isak Nikolai Møller
- Jacob Young
- Nikki Butenschøn
- Erle Kyllingmark
- Fredrik Sandahl
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- OVID
- Rent
- Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Blind about?
- After losing her sight, a Norwegian writer retreats into an apartment-bound world where desire, fear, and invention steadily dissolve the boundary between fantasy and reality.
- What is Blind like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Blind as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Blind violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Blind.
- What did critics think of Blind?
- Critics broadly acclaimed Eskil Vogt's inventive directorial debut for its ambitious construction, psychological insight, and striking blend of tragic, playful, sensual, and cerebral elements.
- Which films are like Blind?
- Films with a similar feel include Adaptation., Stranger than Fiction, The Science of Sleep, and Synecdoche, New York.
- How long is Blind?
- Blind runs 96 minutes.
- Where can I watch Blind?
- In United States, Blind streams on OVID.
