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★★★★☆ Arriving on UK screens a year after its Berlin bow, Blind (2014) - the debut feature from Norwegian screenwriter turned director Eskil Vogt - imbues cognitive visualisation and the mechanics of storytelling to achieve what many have tired and failed to do - successfully insinuate what life without vision might be like. Ingrid (Ellen Dorrit Petersen) turned blind in her thirties. As soon as her husband leaves the house to go to work, Ingrid sits at the window and imagines the world outside. Determined to maintain her ability to recollect images from her past, she constructs narratives for her memories to inhabit. It's within these imaginative fabrications that she introduces us to Einar (Marius Kolbenstvedt).

If you've been following us for any amount of time, you'll know we're big fans of Joachim Trier's "Reprise" and "Oslo, August 31st." And a big part of the success of those films is due to Eskil Vogt, so when we heard he was making his feature directorial debut with "Blind," we were pretty excited. We were even happier to learn that it was a "compelling, clever and surprisingly warm" tale that follows the intersection between a blind woman named Ingrid (Ellen Dorrit Petersen), a lonely, porn-obsessed man (Marius Kolbenstvedt), and a single mother (Vera Vitali). And while it seems this trailer has been kicking around for a while, it only crossed our path now and it's reminder that, if anything, someone needs to pick up this movie for U.S. distribution. Chatting with Vogt earlier this year at the Goteborg International Film Festival, he shared what he learned...