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Blindness

Dir Fernando Meirelles w/ Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo. 118 min. Special Presentations.

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BY Jason Anderson   August 26, 2008 20:08

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Many critics at Cannes were less than kind to director Fernando Mereilles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s dark allegory about societal disintegration in the wake of an epidemic of sightlessness. Yet Blindness deserves rather more humane treatment than it’s received. The script by Don McKellar (who also stars) preserves most of the necessary grace notes while bringing a lighter touch to the novel’s heavier-handed moments. The visual aesthetic is unusually daring, with convincing use of locations in Guelph and Sao Paulo. Julianne Moore is also on typically strong form as the one character who is able to witness her world’s descent into squalour and brutality. An air of tentativeness hampers the whole endeavour but the story still has great force.

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