Film love: Blind (2007)

I think it must be difficult to make a film centered around sensation that is not visually or sound related, like touch , and it is almost magical to watch a film that gives you a perfect interpretation of this sensation. I kept thinking "How does this work?" all the way through the new Dutch film Blind from Tamar van den Dop. The film tells a story of love (and pain) between a young blind man Ruben and his caretaker Marie in a special way that switches some centres in you brain and allows you to perceive everything though your touch, in the same way Ruben does. Both leads Joren Seldeslachts and Halina Reijn are intensely beautiful and both are wonderful actors.

The film evokes many facets of Andersen's "Ice Queen", the book Marie reads to Ruben. I have only read "ice Queen" as a child, in a Russian translation that must have been adapted for children. Watching "Blind" made me pick up the book again , and I found it to be much deeper than I remember.



( Huge Posters for the movie. Not very spoilery, just something you can find in a trailer. )