Blindness

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Cannes Reportage
Published 5/14/2008 by Sasha Stone at Awards Daily 2008
... Like it or not, Jeff Wells does do some of the best reporting from the Cannes film fest - that is, if you can get past his strange personal details (actually, those are maybe the best things about his site in the first place?), like how he lost his camera on the plane. I’m really hoping for a long article about how the French don’t use deodorant. He’s got a Blindness review up - he pans it, for the most part, but after reading how he came into the country it’s hard to take his reaction to it seriously; perhaps he was already too miserable to screen this ...

Today in Cannes Hell: Thieves, Bad 'Blindness' and Jack Black Battling Pandas [Cannes Film Festival]
Published 5/14/2008 by STV at Defamer
... Finally, reviews of Cannes' opening-night film Blindness, which screened for critics this morning, are trickling in. The results are pretty much what we heard a few weeks back: Qualified praise, lukewarm at best, with Jeffrey Wells noting, "I respected Blindness — I certainly agree with what it's saying — but it didn't arouse me at all," and ...

Movie Version Of Blindness Wrecks A Classic Novel, Say Critics [Blindness]
Published 9/3/2008 by Meredith Woerner at io9
After an onslaught of splodey summer movies, we were excited for the movie version of Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles (City of God). The adaptation Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago's novel takes place in the near future, where cities become ravaged with a mysterious outbreak of blindness. And the government carts the "sick" off to quarantined zones, where society degenerates into mob rule and petty dictators take over. But can Meirelles' adaptation live up to the masterful source material? Early reviews point to no, sadly. Blindness was our best hope for a thoughtful future ...