Blindness (2008)

Directed by

Fernando Meirelles

Genre

drama film, disaster film, dystopian film

Country

Brazil, Japan, Canada

Runtime

2h 01m

Rated

R

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 1,391 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mysterious epidemic causes everyone in a city to go blind except for one woman. She pretends to be blind so she can stay with her husband and tries to help a group of people survive in quarantine.

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What happens

Blindness is a 2008 English-language thriller film about a society that suffers an epidemic of blindness. The film is an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by the Portuguese author José Saramago. The film was written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles, starring Julianne Moore as the doctor's wife and Mark Ruffalo as the doctor. Saramago originally refused to sell the rights for a film adaptation, but the producers were able to acquire it with the condition that the film would be set in an unnamed and unrecognizable city. Blindness premiered as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008, and was released in Canada as part of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2008. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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