Blindness

A doctor's wife becomes the only person with the ability to see in a town where everyone is struck with a mysterious case of sudden blindness. She feigns illness in order to take care of her husband as her surrounding community breaks down into chaos and disorder. Based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago

Directed by: Fernando Meirelles
Written by: Don McKellar
Cast: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael Garcia Bernal, Danny Glover
Studio: Miramax
Genre: Thriller
Official Site: www.blindness-themovie.com
Release Date: September 19, 2008
Trailer: www.youtube.com

Movie Trivia

- Producer NIV got Fichman interested in the project back in 1999 when he and Don McKellar, who would write the script, flew to the Canary Islands to talk with the Nobel Prize winner Portuguese writer Jose Saramago about giving them the film rights to his book. Saramago One of the conditions was that the film should not be placed in a recognizable countries.

- Chosen as the opening film at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

- Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, author of the novel on which the movie is based, wanted to attend the premiere of the movie at the Cannes Film Festival. His doctors it was not possible to travel, so the driver flew to Lisbon to him the film.

- In addition to cutting, Julianne Moore her signature red hair dyed blond for the movie. This made her very uncomfortable, because the people who were the new color so much attention.

- The novel by the author initially refused to sell for a movie adaptation, they do not want to fall into the wrong hands.

- Meirelles could acquire rights to the condition that the film would be set in an unrecognizable city. The director chose São Paulo as the primary backdrop for Blindness, but also scenes were filmed in Ontario, Canada and Montevideo, Uruguay.

- With all the characters separately from Julianne Moore's character is blind, the cast was trained to simulate blindness.

-The film includes visual signals, such as the 1568 painting the parable of the Blind of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Allusions to other famous works of art are also made.

- Meirelles also stylized the film to reflect the lack of a point-of-view that the characters would experience.

World Release Date

12 Sept., 2008: Brazil
16 Sept, 2008: Canada
25 Sept, 2008: Netherlands
October 1, 2008: Belgium
October 2, 2008: Australia
October 8, 2008: France
16 Oct., 2008: Greece, Singapore
23 Oct., 2008: Germany
30 Oct., 2008: Argentina
13 Nov, 2008: Portugal
14 November, 2008: UK
15 Nov., 2008: Japan
20 Nov, 2008: Russia
21 November, 2008: Finland