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Based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago Blindness stars Julianne Moore as a doctor's wife who becomes the only person with the ability to see in a town where everyone is struck with a mysterious case of sudden Blindness. She feigns illness in order to take care of her husband (Mark Ruffalo) as her surrounding .. Read more

Starring Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore, Danny Glover, Gael Garcia Bernal
Director Fernando Meirelles
Genres Drama, Thriller

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    Blindness: Fernando Meirelles Interview

    • 21 Nov 2008

    We chatted to City of God and The Constant Gardener director Fernando Meirelles about his new film Blindness, based on the bestselling novel by José Saramago. Set in the near future, Blindness stars Julianne Moore stars as the only person in an unnamed city not to be struck blind by a mysterious disease. We asked Fernando how he went about adapting such as well loved book and what he thought of the controversy the film has caused with activist groups LOVEFILM: Was José Saramago involved in the Read more

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    Cannes Daily Blog Day 1

    • 25 Apr 2008

    The Cannes Film Festival 2008 kicked off in slightly irregular style, not with the glitz and glamour that you would expect, but instead with a clan of giant Kung Fu Pandas… To celebrate the screening of the new Dreamworks animated feature Kung Fu Panda - hitting cinemas in July - the star voice of the film, Jack Black, arrived in Cannes with a boat full of giant Pandas. While it's not the typical beginning to the world's most prestigious festival, you can't deny that it grabs attention.... Read more

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    Kung-fu kicks offs Cannes carnival

    • 15 May 2008

    Jack Black led a gang of giant kung-fu kicking panda bears down the red carpet to help open the 61st Cannes Film Festival in France, according to reports. The BBC says the School Of Rock and Nacho Libre star also performed some kicks and twirls for the press at the screening of his latest movie, animated feature Kung Fu Panda. His antics followed the screening of the event's opening film, bleak drama Blindness, which stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffo and Danny Glover. The film, directed by City... Read more

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    City of Men

    • 14 Jul 2008

    Six years ago, a gangster film set in the favelas of Rio had a tremendous impact all around the world. City of God was co-directed by Fernando Mereilles (responsible for the flashy, Scorsese-style camera style) and Katia Lund (who worked with the cast, mostly kids who came straight from the same impoverished background depicted in the movie). Young people everywhere responded to its stunningly visceral portrait of a brutal, desperate lifestyle, where everybody carried a gun and death could... Read more

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    Blindness

    • 17 Nov 2008

    It opens beautifully: a car stalled at a traffic light that’s showing green. The cars behind honking in frustration. Pedestrians glancing to gauge the severity of the problem – then taking a harder look, because this doesn’t seem to be an automotive malfunction, the driver appears to be in some distress. A passer-by goes up to him to see if he can help (he’s played the Canadian actor Don McKellar, who also adapted Nobel prizewinner Jose Saramago’s novel for the... Read more

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    • Blindness
      Based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago Blindness stars Julianne Moore as a doctor's wife who becomes the only person with the ability to see in a town where everyone is struck with a mysterious case of sudden Blindness. She feigns illness in order to take care of her husband (Mark ...