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BLINDNESS
In Competition
- Directed by :
- Fernando MEIRELLES
- Country:
- BRAZIL, CANADA, JAPAN
- Year:
- 2008
- Duration:
- 120 minutes
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.
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.
Press kit download (pdf)
Fernando MEIRELLES
Credits
- Fernando MEIRELLES - Director
- Don MC KELLAR - Screenplay
- César CHARLONE, ABC - Cinematography
- Tulé PEAK - Set Designer
- Marco Antonio GUIMARAES - Music
- Daniel REZENDE - Film Editor
Actors
- Gael Garcia BERNAL - Le barman, roi du dortoir 3
- Alice BRAGA - La fille aux lunettes noires
- Danny GLOVER - L'homme au cache-oeil, narrateur
- Yusuke ISEYA - Le premier homme aveugle
- Yoshino KIMURA - La femme du premier homme aveugle
- Don MC KELLAR - Le voleur
- Julianne MOORE - La femme du médecin
- Sandra OH - La ministre de la Santé
- Mark RUFFALO - Le médecin
Contacts and useful links
Production
RHOMBUS MEDIA - 99, Spadina Ave, Suite 600
Toronto ON M5V 3P8
Canada
T : +1 416 971 7856 - nfichman@rhombusmedia.com
O2 FILMES (BRESIL)
BEE VINE PICTURES (ETATS-UNIS)
Distribution
PATHÉ DISTRIBUTION - T : +33 (0)1 71 72 30 00 - justine.renard@pathe.com - www.pathedistribution.com
French press
Jérôme Jouneaux, Isabelle Duvoisin & Matthieu Rey
T : +33 (0)1 53 20 01 20 - F : +33 (0)1 53 20 09 82 - matthieu-rey@wanadoo.fr
International press
PREMIER PR - Matthew Sanders - T: + 44 20 72 92 83 30 - matthew.sanders@premierpr.com
- www.premierpr.com
Foreign sales
FOCUS FEATURES - T : +44 20 7307 1370 - alison.thompson@Focusfeatures.com