Notes on Blindness

April. 07,2014      
Rating:
8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

In the summer of 1983, just days before the birth of his first son, writer and theologian John Hull went blind. In order to make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began keeping a diary on audio cassette.

Marilyn Hull as  Narrator

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Reviews

ManiakJiggy
2014/04/07

This is How Movies Should Be Made

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Seraherrera
2014/04/08

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

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Siflutter
2014/04/09

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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Ava-Grace Willis
2014/04/10

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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