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Blindness (2008)

Name: Blindness
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Genre: drama film, disaster film, dystopian film
Rating: 6.5

Blindness is a 2008 English-language thriller film about a society that suffers an epidemic of blindness. The film is an adaptation of the 1995 novel by Portuguese author José Saramago. The film was written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles, and stars Julianne Moore as the doctor's wife and Mark Ruffalo as the doctor. Saramago originally refused to sell the rights for a film adaptation, but the…

Directed by Fernando Meirelles · Shot by César Charlone · Cut by Daniel Rezende · Music by Marco Antônio Guimarães

Behind the scenes

Blindness is just another way of seeing | Lotfi Merabet | TEDxCambridge — TEDx Talks · 15 min
A curable condition that causes blindness - Andrew Bastawrous — TED-Ed · 4 min

Elsewhere

More by Fernando Meirelles

Art
The Nutty Boy 2 — 1998
Maids — 2001
City of God — 2002
The Constant Gardener — 2005
360 — 2011
Rio, I Love You — 2014
The Two Popes — 2019
Here Comes the Flood — 2026

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