CRITIQUE

THE SENSATION OF SIGHT (2006, Either/Or Films) is a winsome film…gorgeously photographed and populated by attractive people who act well (led by the master of “good intentions wracked by internal torment,” David Strathairn).

It is, I believe, a film born of the noblest intentions…enriched by writer-director Aaron J. Wiederspahn’s worthy cinema pedigree and infectious esprit de corps.

I am glad THE SENSATION OF SIGHT was made, glad it exists. I am proud of the effort it represents. I’m…on its side, as it were.

I also think it is a profoundly pretentious film. A film that circles around a sense of existential angst for far too much of its 134 minute running time, then overshoots the runway.

This is a Criterion Collection film in quotation marks. A film that aspires to profundity, and lands…somewhere south of that.

A serious, well-intentioned, aspirational work that suffocates under the weight of its good intentions.