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Movies like Notes on Blindness

Key Features:
Loss, Disability, Blindness, Sensory experience, Adaptation, Existentialism, Transformation
Tone:
serious, poetic, restrained
Target Audience:
Documentary viewers, Visually impaired, Introspective, Biographical
Emotional Arc:
Loss → Acceptance

Notes on Blindness

2016-07-01
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After losing sight in 1983, John Hull began keeping an audio diary, a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating the interior world of blindness. Following on from the Emmy Award-winning short film of the same name, Notes on Blindness is an ambitious and groundbreaking work, both affecting and innovative.

Genres
Drama, Documentary
Cast
John M. Hull, Marilyn Hull, Dan Renton Skinner, Simone Kirby, Eileen Davies, David Hobbs, Victoria Wicks, Jamie Bradley, Imogen Hull, Thomas Hull
Crew
James Spinney, Pete Middleton, Pete Middleton, James Spinney
Rating
6.986(69 votes)
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Cardboard Boxer
6.3

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Diary of the Dead
5.586

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Ava(2017)
6.2

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The Secret Life of Words

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6.691

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The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

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Little Fish
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The Sense of Wonder

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Tales That Witness Madness

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The Life Before Her Eyes

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Only the Dead
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6.8

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Mozart and the Whale

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If I Had Wings
6.7

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Black Beauty
6.7

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