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Director
Lucy Walker
Cast
Gavin Attwood,
Sally Berg,
Sonam Bhumtso,
Dachung,
Jeff Evans
Genre
Documentary
"Blindsight" follows six Tibetan teenagers as they attempt to climb the 23,000 foot Lhakpa Ri mountain in the shadow of Mount Everest - a challenge in its own right, but made all the more impressive by the fact that they are all blind. Undeterred by the scorn they receive from their village community, they enlist the help of a blind German social worker who established the first school for the vision impaired in Lhasa, as well as the famous blind seven-summit mountain climber Erik Weihenmayer.
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Featuring exceptional people doing extraordinary things, Blindsight is one of those documentaries with the power to make you re-examine your entire life -- or at least get off the couch.
Chicago Tribune
Their story is deeply involving, all the more so because it isn’t simple or straightforward.
TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox
Raises important questions that resonate far beyond the subject at hand: What is the meaning of accomplishment, and how do you define triumph?
Chicago Tribune by Tasha Robinson
Their story is deeply involving, all the more so because it isn’t simple or straightforward.
Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lucy Walker's observant film Blindsight is about profound East-West differences in the importance of journey versus destination and comradeship versus competition.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Walker was the best choice to document this journey. For one thing, her first film, "Devil's Playground," and its examination of how Amish teenagers react when confronted with the outside world, showed her to be both curious and fearless. Plus, it turns out she is herself blind in one eye.
San Francisco Chronicle
Simultaneously a sports adventure film, a tear-jerking tale of hope and inspiration and a captivating meditation on culture clash.
Boston Globe
The movie is about hope and courage and fortitude. It's about beating the odds and defying expectations. But Lucy Walker's movie is also about whether the trip was a good idea in the first place. The answer is compellingly complicated.
San Francisco Chronicle by Tamara Straus
Simultaneously a sports adventure film, a tear-jerking tale of hope and inspiration and a captivating meditation on culture clash.
Boston Globe by Staff (Not Credited)
The movie is about hope and courage and fortitude. It's about beating the odds and defying expectations. But Lucy Walker's movie is also about whether the trip was a good idea in the first place. The answer is compellingly complicated.
Variety
The deceptively complex picture gradually grows sharp edges and snowballs into a compelling study in culture clash, with spectacular scenery to boot.
Washington Post by Desson Thomson
Spiritually aware documentary.
Variety by Leslie Felperin
The deceptively complex picture gradually grows sharp edges and snowballs into a compelling study in culture clash, with spectacular scenery to boot.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Bill White
A moving and touching documentary.
Village Voice
Blindsight works best when it casts off the constraints of the adventure tale it wasn't meant to be and settles into a deft and humanistic treatment of blindness in Tibet.
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