‘Mandy’: Sound as a Metaphor for Love

An engaging film about how one can be taught to hear by being loved.

Mandy Garland (Mandy Miller) thrives with love, in “Mandy.” Ealing Studios

G | 1h 33min | Drama | 1952

British writer Hilda Lewis based her novel, “The Day is Ours,” on her husband Michael Lewis’s work educating deaf children. American-born director Alexander Mackendrick based his film (also released as “Crash of Silence”) on her novel.