Director Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of Jose Saramago's allegorical novel about a society that goes blind loses all credibility in Don McKellar's particularly naïve screenplay.
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Blindness (2008)
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Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Theatrical Release: Sep 26, 2008 Wide
Synopsis: Fernando Meirelles (THE CONSTANT GARDENER) directs this adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago's novel. An unexplained epidemic of blindness strikes an unknown city, and the stricken are forced to depend on each other and the single sighted person in their midst.... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover, Gael Garcia Bernal, Alice Braga
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Screenwriter: Don McKellar
Producer: Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Niv Fichman, Sonoko Sakai
Composer: Marco Antonio Guimaraes, Uakti
Screenwriter: Don McKellar
Producer: Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Niv Fichman, Sonoko Sakai
Composer: Marco Antonio Guimaraes, Uakti
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Meirelles' adaptation of the popular novel is not flawless--central acts are weak and lack power--but in its good moments, it's a thought provoking, visually impressive meditation on the fragility of humanity, an apt reflection of the post 9/11 zeitgeist
05/14/08
The personal and mass chaos that would result if the human race lost its sense of vision is conveyed with diminished impact and an excess of stylish tics in Blindness.
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