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Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, whose previous film, City of God, won awards all over the world and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2004 Oscars has crafted another highly entertaining yet important film. Beautifully shot in Kenya, Germany, Sudan, Manitoba, and London, The Constant Gardener, based on a .. Read more

Starring	Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, Bill Nighy
Director	Fernando Meirelles
Genres	Thriller

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Weisz: 'Oscar win was bizarre'
- 14 Dec 2009
Rachel Weisz struggles to remember the moment she won a prestigious Academy Award in 2006 - because she was so heavily pregnant it was like an "out of body" experience. The Mummy star was expecting son Henry when she was handed the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in The Constant Gardener. Weisz admits the ceremony was extremely surreal - and confesses she can barely recall her winning moment. She says, "My son was born in 2006, so it must have been then. It was bizarre, because I... Read more
Green hair cost Sienna Gardener role
- 08 Aug 2009
Sienna Miller fears her green hair may have cost her a role opposite Ralph Fiennes in The Constant Gardener. The blonde actress reveals she had a home dye disaster the night before the audition for the film - and she could not have looked worse. Miller explains, "I've tried to dye it (hair) dark before and it went horribly wrong. "I thought I'd be all organic and hippie and I used henna instead of normal hair colour, which, if you have blonde hair, goes green... proper pond green. "I had an... Read more
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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
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