Bess is a strange young woman. She’s studying ocular health, has a white peacock named Argus, sees a bizarre psychotherapist, has a treehouse that looks as though Big Bird built it, and can’t see her mother. Well, either she can’t see her or she’s not there: that point is a little contentious. Bess (Shannon Tarbet) maintains that her mother (Chloe Sevigny) died 10 years ago in a car crash while her father (Matthew Broderick) speaks to her like she’s still there. Either Bess has weirdly selective vision or her dad Murray is demented with grief.
To be fair, Murray might be a bit demented. He has Parkinson’s, which is often linked with dementia. His advancing disease may be partially to blame for Bess’s failure to launch. She’s still at home, not particularly excited about optometry or her boyfriend or the state of her life. The only thing that really holds her attention is her therapist, Farmer (Benjamin Walker), with whom she has worked intensively for the past several years. Is she cured? In fact, she is not even so much as diagnosed. But on his way to another degree, and in the name of research, Farmer attempts therapeutic approach after therapeutic approach, and finally he plays the last card in his deck: group therapy. He pairs Bess with “therapy buddy” Russell (Aidan Turner), a suicidal demolition man. Two problems. Russell is in love with Bess. And Bess can’t see Russell.
Love Is Blind is an experimental kind of film, and a beautiful one, perfectly framed shots, vibrant colour palettes. It has a distinct vibe and simply asks the viewer to go with the flow. It’s a tiny bit opaque in that we don’t know for sure who’s having the mental breakdown so we’re basically just sifting through opposing evidence, but all of the evidence is saturated with an aesthetic that I totally bought into, so instead of totally obscuring things, it’s like watching a movie through the filter of unicorn skin.This movie literally made me say OUT LOUD “I thought that was a metaphor, but it wasn’t.” Don’t tell me you’re not interested! I, for one, was enchanted.
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😀👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 i am intrigued!!! TY!!
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Love is Blind or Beautiful Darkness?
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You’ll find it under Love Is Blind. It’s also been called both Beautiful Darkness and Look Away. Quite a few title changes on this thing.
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Thanks… and 😂.
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Love is Light and darkness is darkness one has to give way for the other it is either you have one or the other
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Aiden Turner makes me interested.
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Cool! Love Chloe Sevigny!
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Sounds a bit weird for my blood. I really hate movies where I’m not sure what is “real” and what is going on in the character’s head. I can’t get a firm grasp on those.
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Definitely interested and also Aiden Turner doesn’t hurt 🙂
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Sounds interesting, especially the part about the mother.
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Added to my watch list!
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How could anyone turn down watching something through a unicorn skin filter?
It’s usually troll skin, or worse, dead troll skin–no filter–for so many movies.
I AM intrigued.
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Ideally Love is not blind it just covers a multitude of sin and act
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Oh, that’s an interesting piece!
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