Seeing Blindness

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5:02 pm Update: Fernando Meirelles' Blindness was missing from this morning's official Cannes Film Festival lineup. And yet it was reported as a definite Cannes possibility by Variety's Todd McCarthy, the Hollywood Reporter's Stephen Zeitchik and Agence France Presse last month.

I gather it will be shown at Cannes under some aegis. I haven't been told this in so many words, but a person in the Blindness camp has written that this morning's official Cannes list, as we all know, omitted "a few key announcements that are yet to be made." The implication seems clear.

These stories -- #1, #2 and #3 -- presumably had some basis in fact. Blindness is a September 19th release from Miramax and is (also) going to Toronto.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on April 23, 2008 at 2:08 PM

comment #1

Dexter says ...

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing...

Posted by Dexter at April 23, 2008 4:02 PM

comment #2

p.Vice says ...

Considering his past efforts, my guess is that it sucks major ass.

Posted by p.Vice at April 23, 2008 4:10 PM

comment #3

hanimal says ...

the question is: does it open or close?
and there's still one slot for competition, is that blindness? or the sea wall starring isabelle huppert and gaspard ulliel?

Posted by hanimal at April 23, 2008 5:15 PM

comment #4

ZacharyTF says ...

I have to disagree with you there p. Vice. I still think City of God is one of the decade's ten best and The Constant Gardener was a great movie.

I look at it as like Peter Jackson doing King Kong after the LOTR trilogy. A step down, but still great.

Posted by ZacharyTF at April 23, 2008 6:23 PM

comment #5

luvneverends says ...

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Posted by luvneverends at April 24, 2008 2:07 AM

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MikeSchaeferSF says ...

Saw the trailer last night for the first time -- I had no idea what it was about before that -- and my first thought was: it's Day of the Triffids... without the triffids.

Posted by MikeSchaeferSF at April 24, 2008 8:21 AM

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wayne76 says ...

I'm currently reading this book....if Meirelles pulls this off, it's going to be an amazing film.

and I disagree with pVice wholeheartedly. City of God is one of the 5 best of the decade so far.

Posted by wayne76 at April 24, 2008 9:53 AM

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