Blindness
When an epidemic of a disease known as the 'white sickness' appears in her city, the wife (Julianne Moore) of a doctor is one of the few individuals left who still has sight. She then keeps her sight a secret and leads seven strangers out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets of the city.
1984, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
27 June 1980, São Paulo, Brazil
27 July 1949, Brooklyn, New York, USA
20 July 1971, Nepean, Ontario, Canada
1950, North Bay, Ontario, Canada
18 June 1965, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
30 November 1978, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
15 April 1983, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
10 April 1976, London, England, UK
22 November 1967, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
3 December 1960, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
August 30, 2009
Like the film's thematic elements, the camera trickery comes off as unnecessarily pretentious, the sort of thing film students applaud while mainstream audiences yawn.
November 21, 2008
Sadly, 'Blindness' may realise its director's worst fear: to produce not only an exploitation B-movie but one, paradoxically, spoiled by its own integrity and misplaced 'artistic' mise-en-scène and intentions.
October 03, 2008
Blindness is a glum, ugly film, and pretentious in the bargain. But, perhaps least excusable, it is a fundamentally ill-conceived film, the visual depiction of a world without sight.
August 14, 2009
It's hard to explain all the vitriol aimed at Meirelles' film, which is a beautifully shot picture that is as haunting and profound as it is thought-provoking.
March 24, 2011
Give this one a go guys, you'll see the world anew.
December 17, 2008
I have to admire a mainstream movie that's so overwhelmingly bleak, but that's the only real distinction of this dystopian sci-fi drama.
October 18, 2008
Stilted, claustrophobic and more stylish than substantial.
June 02, 2010
The picture is elongated to a punishing two hours of suffering, infuriatingly slavish screenwriting, and a director who should be gifted the miracle of a tripod this upcoming holiday season.
July 03, 2009
Blindness is a film that is trying to come off as organic and artsy, but feels too contrived.
October 06, 2008
Set in a nameless English-speaking city where people are suddenly stricken with sightlessness, it's an allegory that never rises to the level of believability.
August 01, 2009
Takes the post-apocalyptic themes of Children of Men and blends it with the jaded morality of Lord of the Flies to questionable success
October 06, 2008
It's the rare movie that dissects the blackness of the soul; rarer still are ones that manage to find the darkness beautiful.
