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"In his film the director Bertram Verhaag catches a situation of high tension, full of tears and hatred.
You can hardly make a better use of all the possibilities the documentary film offers."
Stuttgarter Nachrichten – 16.1.1997
"BLUE EYED is not only a forceful appeal against discrimination, against the safe conscience of the nondiscriminated, but also the portrait of a committed woman."
Junge Welt – 5.12.1996
"BLUE EYED - the hot tip at the European Program Market in Rotterdam.
Filmecho / Fiilmwoche – 1/97
"It won't help much to be prepared to face Jane Elliott. This elderly woman will tear down any shield.Even we, the spectators in BLUE EYED, can't get rid of this feeling of uneasiness, embarrasment, anxiety and utterly helpless hatred when she starts keeping people down, humiliating them, deriding them, incapacitating them. No doubt about this: for three quarters of the time in this documentation Jane Elliott is the meanest, the lowest, the most detestful, the most hypocritical human being hell has ever spit back on earth. But she should be an example for all of us.
Stuttgarter Zeitung – 16.1.1997
„BLUE EYED is more than just Jane Elliot’s story. It is a journey through an emotional maze. Few films can claim that they have the power to change somebody'slife. Guaranteed, this one will.“
The Desert Sun, Palm Springs – 26.01.1997
"A brilliant documentation"
Cinema – Januar 1997
"A sensational film"
AZ – 31.12.1996
"A painfully consequent documentation of an experiment in racism with children and grownups in America who experienced a situation of permanent humiliation and their specific reactions under this group pressure. An exciting film about the well-established reactions of the subconscious. "
Ponkie im AZ Feuilleton – 2.7 1996
"Finally a film you come out more pensive than you went in."
Süddeutsche Zeitung – 2.7.1996
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