See the first five minutes of BLINDNESS!
BLINDNESS, the third film from Brazilian film-maker Fernando Meirelles opens in the U.S. today but you can preview the first five minutes of the movie in full at Yahoo and decide if it's something you just have to see. Based on the much lauded Jose Saramago novel, the movie revolves around a wild city epidemic which causes instant "white blindess" and stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga and Danny Glover. Almost venturing into that kind of fake real acting found in THE HAPPENING, I would say the sequence is pretty successful. It is almost like a talented director working from a M. Night Shyalaman script, this is the kind of interesting results you can get. Though the critics haven't been so kind, BLINDNESS currently scores a 40% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. With this story, we might finally see Meirelles be a little quieter and steadier with his camera. That is a very good thing indeed because I nearly walked out of THE CONSTANT GARDNER because it started to make me feel sick. Sadly, the movie doesn't open in the U.K. till November.