Blindness

The Constant Gardener director Fernando Meirelles joins forces with Canadian writer/director/actor Don McKellar to bring Portuguese Nobel Prize winner José Saramago's 1995 novel to the big screen in this large-scale philosophical thriller. An epidemic of blindness pushes society to the breaking ...more

For the victims of an inexplicable vision-robbing epidemic in Blindness, the world suddenly turns into a stark white canvas. Viewers of the film, however, are privy to the grime, excrement, and dismal tones decorating a society where desperation gives way to chaos. That said, the unnamed city in which sightlessness takes hold doesn’t look too lustrous to begin with. Director Fernando Meirelles’ (City of God) film opens on a street cloaked underneath a murky haze; flashes of green, yellow, and ...more