Blind Sun

What's happening here ? We all saw the same film that pretty much wasn't a film that deserved even a critic !!!!! But No you got into the trouble to write what came to your mind just to praise something that was an absolute nothing !!!! You rated with a 7 to a10 ? Bravo to the cousins and batzanaki of the director also, you can come on Sunday to eat pastitzio with the family. And wear your shades because the sun is not the only one blind !

Despite the atmospheric premise, Blind Sun never picks up speed. It's a slow burner but never gets to a point where things get interesting. It's such a missed opportunity because everything including the hot yellow / orange sunlight is set to make everyone paranoid. But no. Like other "deep-thinking" films, many questions are left unanswered and paranoia, anxiety and fear are replaced by boredom and annoyance. It is not quite a disaster but too many, if not all things are too random and make little or no sense. The ending... well, do not expect too much! However, I am glad that this film never turned out to be a politically charged propaganda film for climate activists because they never deal with the real problem - overpopulation.

Water as precious as gold! It's not a new idea and it might be quite a reality in a future not so far... BLIND SUN begins with this premise. In a remote region of Greece a strong heat wave make portable water a precious thing. To reinforce that idea there's a multinational company, which distributes water to the population, called "Bluegold"! The two elements, heat/fire and water are constant in the movie, as they represent two main forces of life! And healthiness... including psychological healthiness...

The heat wave and the lack of water are just the plot background to what truly is a psychological thriller and a perfect slow burner! In fact BLIND SUN is a mystery thriller where the pace is really slow and many scenes are almost contemplative (look at those beautiful landscape shots and that sunshine!) but the tension is growing scene by scene in a slow but effective way!

The characters aren't many, it's all around ASHRAF, the main character, and about what he sees and thinks... we "see" the plot through his mind... but it's not easy to understand a mind affected by extreme heat and thirstiness...

To sum up BLIND SUN is a mystery thriller with a great cinematography (nice camera details and beautiful scenarios) and a (very!) open ending...

Good atmosphere until you get bored, very beautiful filmmaking, an interesting POV, but doesn't deliver.

In the end, it's just another artsy film with less to say that it's director thinks.

I would like so much to discover more films like this one, not necessarily the same plot or scheme but only a movie that looks like anything else. A movie that glues you to the film, no matter the actors or directing. It looks like a short film tale, and the director seems to have made short movies before. It is not very talkative, and that's even better, the pictures talk by themselves. And I will say that the aesthetics is the main character here. I was amazed by the camera work, photography.... The eerie atmosphere, far more impressive than any predictable Hollywood horror film. I highly recommend it.