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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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