Blindness

Fernando Meirelles always wanted to film José Saramago's novel. He finally got the chance

When Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles was told that the Festival de Cannes wanted his new film, "Blindness," to open this year's event Wednesday night, he was "surprised, to be honest." Not because of a lack of faith in what he'd done but because of the nature of his accomplishment. Taken from the novel by Portuguese Nobel Prize winner José Saramago and starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Danny Glover, "Blindness" is in large part a disturbing, unnerving parable about the horrific ways society disintegrates when everyone in it (except Moore's character) goes inexplicably blind. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (6096 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 15 maggio 2008