Out Of Sight

At only one point does the documentary OUT OF SIGHT belabor the obvious: when its subject, Diane Starin, says that if her true story were a soap opera nobody would believe it. Starin, blind since early childhood (both eyes were surgically removed due to cancer of the optic nerve), is a rangily attractive, 30-ish woman leading an active life in rural northern California, taming and riding horses, and line dancing at local country-and-western clubs. Less capable filmmakers might have turned the notion of a sightless cowgirl into an inspirational profile-in-courage. Boston-based filmmakers David and Nancy Sutherland scrutinize Starin's world and emerge with a more tro...