Cannes: Blindness

"Blindness [site] may well be the bleakest curtain raiser in the history of the festival, a nightmarish parable of the apocalypse, directed by the Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles and just as impressive in its way as his career-making City of God," writes the Guardian''s Xan Brooks.



"Blindness feels like a curious mix of highbrow literary aspirations and lowbrow genre fiction," writes James Rocchi at Cinematical. "[I]t''d be easy to dismiss Blindness as Dawn of the Dead for NPR listeners or Outbreak for grad students. But while Blindness can be faulted for a number of things, it also has to be respected for its ambition, craft, and effort; Blindness shows us a world of wide-eyed sightlessness, and it does so through a fierce vision that only occasionally loses focus."

Updated through 5/16. Posted by: dwhudson    Source