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5.9

Blindness (2008)

Blindness
Running time: 118 min. | Genre: Drama, Thriller, Disability, Pandemics, Dystopia, Blindness
Blindness

Synopsis

A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created "society of the blind" quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. There is however one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become, in essence, a family. She leads them out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets of the city, which has seen all vestiges of civilization crumble. Their voyage is fraught with danger, yet their survival and ultimate redemption reflect the tenacity and depth of the human spirit.

Nominations & Awards

Cannes Film Festival

  • Golden Palm - Best Film NOMINATED

Sitges Film Festival

  • Best Production Design WINNER
  • Audience Award WINNER
  • Best Picture NOMINATED

Cinema Brazil Grand Prize

  • Best Cinematography WINNER
  • Best Production Design WINNER
  • Best Makeup WINNER
  • Best Visual Effects WINNER
  • Best Picture NOMINATED
  • Best Director (Fernando Meirelles) NOMINATED
  • Best Supporting Actress (Alice Braga) NOMINATED
  • Best Supporting Actor (Gael García Bernal) NOMINATED
  • Best Adapted Screenplay NOMINATED
  • Best Costume Design NOMINATED
  • Best Sound NOMINATED
  • Best Fiction Film Editing NOMINATED
  • Best Original Soundtrack NOMINATED

Details

Original title

Blindness

Director

Fernando Meirelles

Producer

Coproducción Brasil-Canadá-Japón; Alliance Films, Fox Film, Téléfilm Canada, Rhombus Media, O2 Filmes, Bee Vine Pictures, Movie Central Network, Corus Entertainment, GAGA, Asmik Ace Entertainment. Distribuida por Miramax, Focus Features

Running time

118 min.

Screenwriter

Don McKellar (Novela: José Saramago)

Music

Marco Antônio Guimarães

Cinematography

César Charlone

Year

2008

Country

Brazil Brazil

Ranking

IMDb
6.6
Metacritic
4.5
Unopeliculas
6.7

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