Opening night red-carpet glory this year is for Brazil's two-time Oscar-nominated director Fernando Meirelles, whose "Blindness", about a world where people have lost their sight, starts the world's biggest filmfest.
The film, starring Julianne Moore, is one of 22 competing for Cannes' prestigious Palme d'Or, this year to be awarded by a jury headed by Sean Penn and handed out by Robert de Niro.
Based on a book by Nobel winner Jose Saramago of Portugal, the latest movie by the maker of "City of God" and "The Constant Gardener", is a gripping story about humanity facing an epidemic of blindness that raises a heap of questions about human nature and the fragility of society.
"It's as if civilisation was built on a thin layer of ice that could crack at any moment," Meirelles said at a news conference here. "It's a metaphor on all the ills of the 20th century."
Oh, I see.
This one is serious because it lacks the plants.
Right, gotcha.
Next!
1 comment:
SO FRUSTRATING! It seems like he stole the idea.
John Wyndham was a GENIUS!
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