Blindness
2008 · TMDB 6.5
Directed by Fernando Meirelles
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.
Why it matters
Fernando Meirelles's adaptation of Saramago's novel depicts a city struck by a mysterious epidemic of white blindness, and the descent into savagery that follows as the infected are quarantined in an asylum.
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Released
- 2008-05-14
- Studio
- Alliance Films
- Country
- Brazil
- Language
- Japanese
- TMDB score
- 6.5
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