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Title Auf den ersten blick
Originaltitle: At first sight
Regie: Irwin Winkler
Darsteller: Val Kilmer, Mira Sorvino, Kelly McGillis, Steven Weber, Bruce Davison, Nathan Lane, Ken Howard
Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
Land: USA
Stichwort: blind
Release: 00.00.0000

Handlung
Der blinde Masseur Virgil Adamson lernt die geschiedene New Yorker Architektin Amy Benic kennen. Sie überredet ihn zu einer medizinischen Behandlung, nach der Adamson vorrübergehend wieder sehen kann. Sein Vertrauen zu ihr wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt, als er erfährt, dass er wieder erblinden wird.


Weitere Info
Based On The Story "To See And Not See" By Oliver Sacks.

Rezenssion von

The most striking moment in "At First Sight" is when the hero is able to see for the first time since he was 3. "This isn't right," he says, frightened by the rush of images. "There's something wrong. This can't be seeing!" And then, desperately, "Give me something in my hands," so that he can associate a familiar touch with an unfamiliar sight.
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The movie is best when it pays close attention to the details of blindness and realities of the relationship. When the two of them take shelter from the rain, he is able to sense the space around him by the sound of the rain outside. His dialogue is sweetly ironic; when they meet for a second time, he says, "I was describing you to my dog, and how well you smelled." All of this is just right, and Kilmer and Sorvino establish a convincing, intimate rapport--a private world in which they communicate easily. But the conventions of studio movies require false melodrama to be injected at every possible juncture, and so the movie manufactures a phony and unconvincing breakup, and throws in Virgil's long-lost father, whose presence is profoundly unnecessary for any reason other than to motivate scenes of soap opera psychology.
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Roger Ebert, 15.1.1999
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990115/REVIEWS
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