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Blindness

Lust is blind.

If I was a real doctor I'd use you to develop a vaccine...

A new contagious virus has apppeared, which causes instant blindness to anyone susceptible to it. After a doctor and his patients are infected, they are rounded up by government agents and put into quarantine. The doctor's wife, who has natural immunity to the virus, pretends to be blind so that she can look after her husband. In the hospital, things soon degenerate into chaos when one victim declares himself king and starts making unreasonable demands on the other patients. It's up to the doctor's wife, as the only patient able to see, to rescue the situation.

119 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Nudity, Violence)
Detective/Mystery, Drama, Romance, Thriller, On the art circuit

Credits

Cast

Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Danny Glover, Gael Garcia Bernal, Yusuke Iseya, Don McKellar

Director

Fernando Meirelles

Screenplay

Don McKellar, based on the novel by José Saramago

Music

Marco Antônio Guimarães

Cinematography

César Charlone

Editing

Daniel Rezende

Sound formats

Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS

Soundtrack

Not available

Made in

2008

Produced by

Rhombus Media, O2 Filmes, Bee Vine Pictures, Alliance Films, Ancine, Asmik Ace Entertainment, BNDES, Corus Entertainment, Fox Filmes do Brasil, GAGA Communications, IFF/CINV, Movie Central Network, Téléfilm Canada

SA Distributor

Ster-Kinekor

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity

Violence

Blood / Gore

Guns /
Weapons

Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs

Smoking

Disrespectful /
Bad Attitude

Imitative Behaviour

Frightening /
Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes

Tense Family Scenes

Music (Scary/Tense)

Music (Inappropriate)

Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)

South African Media

Cape Argus/The StarDiane de Beer

Die BurgerLaetitia Pople

Cape TimesCarina Chocano

iAfrica.comNils van der Linden

24.comFinn Gregory

International Media

Box Office (USA)Richard Mowe Blindness is definitely worth a look

Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert Blindness is one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films I've ever seen. It is an allegory about a group of people who survive under great stress, but frankly I would rather have seen them perish than sit through the final three-quarters of the film

eye Weekly (Canada)Jason Anderson Carefully wrought and mostly effective adaptation.

ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli Blindness is a fascinating intellectual exercise that explores how conditions and relationships might devolve in a closed community such as this one.

ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs While I'm sure there will be those who see all sorts of deep meaning in what Meirelles is showing, it's not a novel idea (see The Lord of the Flies and other such stories) and clearly not that engaging of one.

Metacritic.com31 critics

RottenTomatoes.com144 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer This allegorical disaster film about society's reaction to mass blindness is mottled and self-satisfied; provocative but not as interesting as its premise implies.

Internet (IMDB)15825 Netizens Intense, slow, gritty, powerful and methodic.

Average .. 55%

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