A film by Juraj Lehotsky
Slovakia, 2008 (77 minutes)
Funny, moving portraits of what four different characters have in common, beyond their quest for romance…
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SCREENINGS: St. Anthony Main 4/19 Sun. 8:00 PM 4/26 Sun. 10:15 PM |
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Synopsis
Music teacher Peter has a vivid imagination fuelled by television and radio plays, and dreams of submerging himself in a fairytale world. Miro is a Roma gypsy man, and in the early stages of a relationship with the cute Momi, though her parents disapprove of the pair seeing each other. Elena is a young mother-to-be, fretting over the prospect of giving birth to her first child. Teenager Zuzana is looking for her first love on the Internet. What the four different characters have in common, beyond their quest for romance, is that they have been blind since birth.
Slovakian Juraj Lehotský’s distinctive debut documentary feature is a touching, inventive and often very funny portrait of the way people live without sight, revealing unique perceptions of what love and happinness means. It’s a sweet natured and charming film, yet also a bold and provocative exercise, not only in that it presents its audience with images the film’s participants will never see, but also in the way it straddles boundaries between documentary and fiction, constantly asking viewers to question if what they are watching is real or re-created, and, at one point, Lehotský even throws in an animated sequence, to dazzling effect. (Winner of the CICAE Prize at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight.)