Blindness opens the Cannes Festival

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Julianne Moore Experiences 'Blindness'
Published 5/14/2008 by harvey at A Socialite's Life
... One reviewer referred to the film as "a wrist-slitting nightmare about tedious next-door neighbours who are forced to shelve their ethnic, social, and sexual differences when the entire world suddenly comes to a grinding halt." Remind me to see this one when I'm hungover and depressed. It sounds like they'll be sponging my blood off the walls. ...

Press roundup: Meltdown on the Med
Published 5/15/2008 by Paul MacInnes at Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
... , the director of City of God and also this year's Cannes opener, Blindness. Reviews for the film, which centres on Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo as a couple trying to survive a sudden plague that removes its victims' sight, are decidedly mixed. Our own Peter Bradshaw gives Blindness four stars, but the Times's James Christopher scathingly describes "a wrist-slitting nightmare about tedious next-door neighbours who are forced to shelve their ethnic, social, and sexual differences when the entire world suddenly comes to a grinding halt." Sukhdev Sandhu in ...