Cannes. Blindness.
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| The House Next Door found this 5/17/2008 on daily.greencine.com [flag] |
" 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 ...
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Cannes 2008: Day 1 - Badges and Blindness
Published 5/17/2008 by Matt Noller (noreply@blogger.com) at The House Next Door
... but not by very much. We’re not even inside the actual screening area yet, and it’s already beautiful. The theater itself, we soon find, is huge, like a sports stadium without the stench of stale beer. There’s not a bad seat in the house, and the screen is absolutely gigantic. I’m so high on the experience right now that I don’t think it would even matter what the film is that we’re about to watch. Which, it turns out, is a good thing, because the film we’re about to watch is Blindness . *** ...
