Blindsight.

"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." Jeannette Catsoulis in the New York Times.

"Lucy Walker's film, about six blind Tibetan teens who endeavor to scale Mount Everest with the help of pioneering, Everest-conquering blind climber Erik Weihenmayer, employs what's become a familiar structural template, interrupting footage of the hike with backstory snapshots of its young, disabled subjects," writes Nick Schager in Slant. "[I]t naturally expands from simply a can-do inspirational tale into a more complex, non-judgmental portrait of differing cultural and personal values."

"Lucy Walker does justice to the full range of these children's experiences, treating them as intellectual and emotional equals and refusing to patronize or exoticize them," writes Julia Wallace in the Voice.

For Filmmaker, Nick Dawson talks with Walker "about her own partial blindness, shooting in the death zone, and being distraught when she couldn't watch The Aristocats for a fifth day in a row."

Posted by dwhudson at March 24, 2008 12:52 PM