Cannes Review: Blindness

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Cannes. Blindness.
Published 5/14/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... "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 ...

I Am Link
Published 5/14/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (JA) at my new plaid pants
... --- The Two-Eyed Woman Is Queen - Cinematical has a review from Cannes of Fernando Meirelles's film Blindness, starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo... word sounds good except for the voice-over, which doesn't surprise me - I ended up liking Saramago's book by the end but it was in spite of his style, which was a bit ham-fisted for my liking. ...

Today in Cannes Hell: 'Blindness' Still Bad, 'Indy 4' Making Few Friends and Egregious Oscar Hype [Cannes Film Festival]
Published 5/15/2008 by STV at Defamer
... — "Blindness emerges onscreen both overdressed and undermotivated, scrupulously hitting the novel's beats yet barely approximating, so to speak, its vision" — with an only slightly happier James Rocchi following suit at Cinematical. ...

The Pettiest Dictator On Earth, In New "Blindness" Trailer [Blindness]
Published 7/3/2008 by Charlie Jane Anders at io9
... having an epidemic of blindness. But this trailer makes it sound as though the blindness is striking worldwide. The only thing that worries me about this trailer is the way the music swells hopefully at the end as Julianne Moore makes a stirring speech. As you can tell from the trailer, she's the only one in the quarantine hospital who can still see, and she's standing up to the self-proclaimed "King Of Ward 3." Friend of io9 James Rocchi saw Blindness at Cannes and gave it a pretty positive review over at Cinematical: The descent into ...