Festival de Cannes : Film details 2008

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Caught in Cannes' intriguing undertow
Published 5/14/2008 by Peter Bradshaw at Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - film
... day and shooting like that. And it's intriguing that, despite our assumptions about a 24/7 capital, London can look utterly empty in the early morning: even locations like Tottenham Court Road and Tate Modern. Undertow has polish, and inhabits the short-film space with panache. I hope the Cannes Short Film Corner showcase brings Neil McEnery-West the attention and future assistance he deserves. Meanwhile, we are looking forward to today's opening film in the official competition: Fernando Meirelles's Blindness . Weirdly, it has a theme not dissimilar to Undertow. As the ...

Cannes Cam, class of 08.
Published 5/14/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
The third annual IFC Cannes Cam, streaming live, 24/7, for the duration of the festival, is going live in a minute or two. You can find it here; at 6:40pm local, Matt Singer and I will be on to discuss tonight's opening film, "Blindness," during the red carpet. + Cannes Cam (IFC)

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

Cannes? Sort of: Mercredi, 14 Mai
Published 5/15/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
... So the initial word on Fernando Meirelles’ “Blindness,” has not been great. Reading the initial reviews, which you can tell are full of tiredness and crankiness, or something. It is hard to take the reviews too seriously, it always seems like, for the most part, who ever can crank out the snakiest review of a film the quickest wins some kind of coveted prize. I just read the reviews, not taking anything in, and move on. Maybe I am just jealous. As long as I don’t get spoilers - I can handle jet-lagged induced bitchiness. Justin Chang’s ...

Cannes: Your Guess is as Good as Mine
Published 5/25/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
... Egoyan Mixed reviews that lean more towards the positive side, Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter) apparently ventured back into his 90’s thematic explorations of multi-faceted individuals, and that the film’s success lies in its director’s comfortabilty with less commercial work. Apparently its score is the main attraction, and the examination of false ideas that provoke strong reactions from outsiders often proves too repetitive, and hypocritical. “Blindness” by Fernando Meirelles Polarising is a simple way to define the reaction of ...