Blindness
Struggling against survival in the horrible community she lives in, a young smart woman and the wife of a great optician, who manages to survive from the mysterious illness that hits the whole city and leaves its people blind except her, so she does her best to help her husband from death.
10 April 1976, London, England, UK
27 April 1968, Faial, Açores, Portugal
30 September 1982, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2 January 1984, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
22 November 1967, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA
7 December 1959, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
27 April 1964, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada
18 June 1965, Brampton, Ontario, Canada
1988, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
27 June 1980, São Paulo, Brazil
3 December 1960, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
27 July 1949, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
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
July 03, 2009
Blindness is a film that is trying to come off as organic and artsy, but feels too contrived.
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.
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.
March 24, 2011
Give this one a go guys, you'll see the world anew.
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.
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.
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.
October 18, 2008
Stilted, claustrophobic and more stylish than substantial.
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.
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.
