Immensely creative and poetic.

| Sep 1, 2020

The film is ambitious, carefully and skillfully crafted, and tirelessly constructed into a magnificent journey of the heart and mind.

| Apr 30, 2020

Adventurous and intimate and unworried by the wall dividing fiction and nonfiction, Peter Middleton's and James Spinney's debut, Notes on Blindness, is a wondrous film, a thing of magic and a deeply human document.

| Feb 4, 2020

Visually rich and emotional it is impressive piece of film, but its sobriety and highly stylised nature means it can turn into an exhausting watch.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2019

It is not an odyssey about overcoming adversity, but rather the meticulous chronicle of the pulse that maintains an individual with the loss of his vision. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Mar 18, 2019

A visual pleasure. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 12, 2019

A worthwhile look at the emotional refuse of blindness; such as how memories can fade under the condition, as the ability to remember is only nurtured by continual sight.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 4, 2018

Hull writes beautifully about his disability but he is refreshingly hard-headed about it too...This remarkable film is testament to that spirit.

| Apr 9, 2018

Notes on Blindness requires a level of effort on the viewer to garner a full appreciation, but it is worth it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 26, 2017

Notes on Blindness traces a distinctive path, but it is hard to say whether an experimental film like this will attract audiences not already familiar with Hull's work.

| Jul 14, 2017

English writer and theologian John Hull, who went blind in the early 1980s and kept an audio diary of his experience, is the subject of this thought-provoking film, which takes an unusual if not always successful approach to the documentary form.

| Jan 5, 2017

Notes on Blindness is a moving, intimate documentary, a triumph of sound and image, and a poetic examination of love, loss, memory and marriage.

| Jan 3, 2017

Hull's observations -- an audio diary -- provide plenty of insight and engagement.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2017

Sighted viewers should be thankful enough; for cinemagoers who've suffered or who are suffering sight problems, Notes on Blindness might well comprise the most powerful -- and most empowering -- audio-described screening in years.

| Dec 12, 2016

Achingly poignant and startlingly immediate

| Dec 1, 2016

A deeply sensitive interpretation of the subject's reflective testament on disability.

| Nov 21, 2016

Quite often, the filmmakers go for blurry scenery, surreal events and odd camera shots that feel more like gimmicks than an accurate representation of its subject's affliction.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 16, 2016

This daring re-enactment of one man's going blind is not only successful, but deeply moving and enlightening.

| Nov 16, 2016

The filmmakers create art out of what too often is a documentary stopgap.

| Nov 16, 2016

A genuinely moving, profound and haunting experience that might change the way you perceive the sights and sounds around you.

| Original Score: 8.95/10 | Nov 15, 2016