News: Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness Changes to October 3rd Release
Word that just in came in from some of our sources is that Fernando Meirelles’ (City of God, The Constant Gardener) new movie Blindness has moved its release date from its previous limited slot of September 26th to a wide October 3rd release. We posted the teaser trailer for the film back in April and said that we were pretty interested. Since then, as time has passed and more materials have been released, I’ve been getitng more and more hyped for the movie. Especially with a lot of good reviews for it coming out of the festival circuit it has been in lately.
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant “white blindness”. Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created “society of the blind” quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. There is however one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become, in essence, a family. She leads them out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets of the city, which has seen all vestiges of civilization crumble. Their voyage is fraught with danger, yet their survival and ultimate redemption reflect the tenacity and depth of the human spirit.
If you’d like to see the full trailer, we’ve posted it over on IHM. We also have a bunch of stills uploaded from the film released to us in our photo gallery. Don’t forget to check out the main site for the film which actually fits the theme well and was a nice surprise to visit.
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