Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Dense
- Violence
- None
- meditative
- enigmatic
- melancholic
- quiet evening
- reflective viewing
What critics said
The available reception evidence is too limited to establish a reliable aggregate critical consensus.
What sets it apart
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Eva’s contemporary investigation is blended with Dr. Johan Anmuth’s eighteenth-century Prussian life rather than presented as a straightforward historical account.
The Book of Vision contains the experiences of more than 1,800 patients and binds Eva’s existence to Anmuth’s.
Anmuth’s medical practice is defined by conflict between emerging rationalism and ancient animist forms of understanding.
The manuscript is shaped by the inner lives of its patients, while Eva confronts her own body and illness.
Films like The Book of Vision, and why
The Fountain
shares a meditative, psychologically layered mystery connecting contemporary identity with an earlier era and exploring mortality through spiritual imagery
Cloud Atlas
shares dual-era storytelling, spiritual inquiry, and an emotionally contemplative approach to life, death, and interconnected experience
The Physician
shares a cerebral historical drama centered on medicine, mortality, and competing systems of knowledge
Movie Details
- Director
- Carlo Shalom Hintermann
- Release Date
- 2021-07-08
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 (33)
Cast
- Lotte Verbeek
- Charles Dance
- Sverrir Gudnason
- Isolda Dychauk-Ott
- Filippo Nigro
- Vera Filatova
- Giselda Volodi
- Marco Quaglia
- Rocco Gottlieb
- Douglas Dean
Common questions
- What is The Book of Vision about?
- A troubled medical historian enters a manuscript where an eighteenth-century physician’s patients blur the boundaries between science, spirit, life, and death.
- What is The Book of Vision like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Book of Vision as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as dense.
- Is The Book of Vision violent?
- No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in The Book of Vision.
- What did critics think of The Book of Vision?
- The available reception evidence is too limited to establish a reliable aggregate critical consensus.
- Which films are like The Book of Vision?
- Films with a similar feel include The Fountain, Cloud Atlas, and The Physician.
- How long is The Book of Vision?
- The Book of Vision runs 100 minutes.
