Blindness
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It begins in a flash, as one man is instantaneously struck blind while driving home from work, his whole world suddenly turned to an eerie, milky haze. One by one, each person he encounters – his wife, his doctor, even the seemingly good samaritan who gives him a lift home – will in due course suffer the same unsettling fate. As the contagion spreads, and panic and paranoia set in across the city, the newly blind victims of the “White Sickness” are rounded up and quarantined within a crumbling, abandoned mental asylum, where all semblance of ordinary life begins to break down.
Fernando Meirelles
Fernando Meirelles is a Brazilian director. He gained recognition in 2002 with City of God, an aggressive and musical chronicle co-directed by Kátia Lund, about a poor neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro during the 1960s and 1970s. This film, often considered virtuoso, won the Grand Coral at Havana and received four Academy Award nominations. The director then decided to adapt famous texts across three continents: The Constant Gardener by John le Carré in Africa, Blindness by José Saramago in America, and La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler in Europe, which became the film 360 (2012). In 2016, Meirelles was the artistic director of the opening ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. In 2019, he directed a biographical film for Netflix, featuring Anthony Hopkins as Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce as Pope Francis. Both were nominated for Academy Awards.
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