Blindsight

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Blindsight

PG,

2006,

1h 44m,

Documentary/

Adventure

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98%

45 Reviews

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82%

1,000+ Ratings

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98%

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45 Reviews

82%

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1,000+ Ratings

Six blind Tibetan teenagers, shunned by their culture as sinners or possessed by demons, band together to climb the north side of Mount Everest. With the inspiration of their fiery, blind teacher who fought to establish a Tibetan school for blind children, the teens are guided by Erik Weihenmayer, the only blind mountaineer to have successfully scaled Everest. The climbers suffer through illness, bad weather, and the stark challenge of tackling one of the greatest natural wonders on the planet.

Critics Consensus

A powerful glimpse of the possibilities for transcendence in straightforward documentary filmmaking -- and extreme physical disability.

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

Aug 8, 2008

4/5

You wouldn't believe it as fiction but it really is fairly unadorned fact. It is easy to see awards beckoning, and deservedly so because Walker as a film-maker never puts herself in front of her extraordinary subjects.

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Anthony Quinn

Independent (UK)

Aug 8, 2008

3/5

How they managed the trek defies belief, but in an art-form where superpowers have become passé, it's a stirring reminder of what human powers, against the odds, can achieve.

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

Aug 8, 2008

Lucy Walker's documentary Blindsight is breathtaking twice over. It leaves the audience gasping like a landed guppy at views of snow-coddled Himalayan peaks under ice-blue skies.

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John A. Nesbit

Old School Reviews

Apr 25, 2009

B

memorable portrait of some truly courageous individuals and previously unrevealed insights to Tibetan culture

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

Aug 8, 2008

3.5/5

An important, heart-soaring record of a group of incredibly brave people doing something almost everyone would tell them is impossible.

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Rob Daniel

Sky Cinema

Aug 8, 2008

4/5

Lucy Walker's inspirational, award-winning documentary, which leaves condescension and treacle out in the cold, emerging as one of the year's most illuminating, heartbreaking, and life-affirming movies.

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Synopsis

Six blind Tibetan teenagers, shunned by their culture as sinners or possessed by demons, band together to climb the north side of Mount Everest. With the inspiration of their fiery, blind teacher who fought to establish a Tibetan school for blind children, the teens are guided by Erik Weihenmayer, the only blind mountaineer to have successfully scaled Everest. The climbers suffer through illness, bad weather, and the stark challenge of tackling one of the greatest natural wonders on the planet.

Director: Lucy Walker
Producer: Sybil Robson
Rating: PG (Mild Language|Some Thematic Elements)
Genre: Documentary, Adventure
Original Language: Tibetan
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 20, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $88.3K
Runtime: 1h 44m

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