Synopsis
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
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Cast
- Julianne MooreDoctor's Wife
- Mark RuffaloDoctor
- Alice BragaWoman with Dark Glasses
- Yûsuke IseyaFirst Blind Man
- Yoshino KimuraFirst Blind Man's Wife
- Don McKellarThief
- Maury ChaykinAccountant
- Mitchell NyeBoy
- Danny GloverMan with Black Eye Patch
- Gael García BernalBartender / King of Ward Three
Recommendations
- 78
Austin Chronicle
It's a rattling, heartrending performance (Moore) in, yes, a long, hard slough of a film – one that is well worth the journey, if not a repeat trip. - 75
ReelViews
It engaged me throughout and I found the ending to be surprisingly hopeful. - 60
NPR
Moore is always watchable, Ruffalo and Bernal get a nice rivalry going without ever establishing eye contact (as it were), and Danny Glover has some nice moments in an underdeveloped part as an older man who finds, to his benefit, that love is blind. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
As the players enact the fall and rebirth of civilization, Meirelles suggests that even a society gone to hell looks better with a little music-video-like pizzazz. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Blindness is provocative cinema. But it also is predictable cinema: It startles but does not surprise. - 50
Variety
Meirelles' slickly crafted drama rarely achieves the visceral force, tragic scope and human resonance of Saramago's prose. - 50
Chicago Tribune
This film is very different: chilly, methodical, a slave to 10-ton metaphor as opposed to metaphoric provocation. - 40
The New Yorker
The trouble with Blindness is that it’s so preoccupied with shouldering this symbolic weight that it gradually forgets to tell a story--to keep faith with the directives of common sense.
