There’s such an intimate, unflashy style to director Julian Chou’s handling of complex, personal revelations in “Blind Love” (2025) that you’re carried into its folds with little resistance. A subtle, minimalist tone belies the proceedings. There are no overwrought beats nor strains of emotional manipulation in places where those might have been easy, instant reflexes. Barring the occasionally heavy-handed use of blindness as metaphor, Chou maintains a direct simplicity, walking and not rushing with her characters. No arc is belabored as characters navigate a host of dilemmas, and reappraise choices and paths their lives can afford to take.

Circling a family, “Blind Love” is most well-realized when it focuses on Shu-yi (Ariel Lin). She is the prototype of the perfect wife and mother. She has no twinge of a personal life other than being devoted to domestic duties. Her husband, Feng (Frederick Lee), is a successful surgeon. They have two sons,...