- Culture
- 26 Mar 15
Blind
Stylish, cerebral and constantly shifting dramedy
The directing debut from Norwegian screen-writer Eskil Vogt is a darkly shining gem. Ellen Dorrit Petersen plays Ingrid, a blind and agoraphobic housewife whose vivid imagination seems to bleed into reality, so that we do not know what is truly happening and what is merely taking place in her mind.
There’s an intriguing secondary cast, including lonely fetishist Einar (Marius Kolbenstvedt, excellent), Ingrid’s bland husband Morten (Henrik Rafaelson) and single mother Elin (Vera Vitali).
A voyage to the dark-side of human consciousness, Blind is both confusing and spell-binding. It succeeds in part because of dreamy cinematography from Thimios Bakatakis (Dogtooth, Attenberg). An unearthly haze hangs over the film: even something as straightforward as Ingrid making a cup of tea feels creepy and otherworldly.
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