Blind (2014) – UK Blu-ray – June 22, 2015, Axiom Films

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UK Blu-ray release date: June 22, 2015.
Distributor: Axiom Films.
Director: Eskil Vogt.
Writer: Eskil Vogt.
Stars: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Vera Vitali, Marius Kolbenstvedt.



Blind (2014), UK Blu-ray released June 22, 2015.


Official UK Trailer, NSFW:

Blind (2014, Norway) Official Trailer (English Subtitles) - YouTube

Purchase links: Amazon (UK), HMV and Zavvi.

From Variety's review of the film, by Scott Foundas, 18th January 2014:

"Ace Norwegian scribe Eskil Vogt makes a sparkling directorial debut with an alternately tragic and playful tale of a blind authoress.

“It’s not important what’s real as long as I can visualize it,” notes the narrator heroine early on in “Blind,” aptly setting the stage for a lithe, quicksilver portrait of a woman whose loss of sight only serves to sharpen her creative imagination. As much a film about writing and loneliness as about blindness, this standout debut feature for screenwriter Eskil Vogt retains many of the literate, self-reflexive touches Vogt brought to his collaborations with helmer Joachim Trier (chiefly “Reprise”) while finding its own alternately droll, sexy, heartbreaking rhythms. The result should go far on the fest circuit following premiere berths at Sundance and Berlin, where it is sure to draw the attention of discerning arthouse distribs.

“Blind” serves, among other things, as a revelatory showcase for actress Ellen Dorrit Petersen (“Troubled Water”), whose Ingrid has already been gone blind when we first meet her, and inside whose head much of the movie unfolds. Having lost her sight abruptly to an undiagnosed genetic condition, the former schoolteacher now whiles away her days at home in a high-rise apartment she rarely leaves, even in the company of her architect husband, Morten (Henrik Rafaelsen) — who, she believes, sometimes sneaks back in when he’s supposed to be at work and voyeuristically spies on her. And maybe he does, for so fluid is the line between objective and subjective reality in “Blind” that it is all but impossible to say whether certain events depicted onscreen “really” happen or not...."