Selected Reviews of Second Sight
❝ ★★★★ Glorious … intimate … a grand tale with a misty-twisty Gaelic quality. ❞
—John Griffin, Montreal Gazette
❝ … a gloriously good, gorgeous documentary … It's about storytellers, ghosts, apparitions and the haunting, haunted landscape … it's stunningly good. ❞
—John Doyle, Globe and Mail
❝ Pick of the Day ❞ or ❝ Critic's Choice ❞ in every major U.K. newspaper
❝ Delightful … The filmmaker mixes footage of the gorgeous and haunted Skye landscape with super-natural lore gleefully recounted by the island's older inhabitants, such as the octogenarian ex-preacher Donald Angus MacLean, who introduces us to some of his equally idiosyncratic friends … ❞ —Walter Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
❝ … it’s magical … a beautifully crafted visual layer of landscapes and journeys … ❞ —“Very Hot Docs: The Hot Docs Festival’s Excellent Film Experiences”,
Ben Kempas, DOX, European Documentary Film Magazine
❝ … a memorable, genuinely haunting film … Alison McAlpine weaves an extraordinary spell … ❞ —Damien Love, Glasgow Herald
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