Lust is blind.
| Cast |
Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga, Danny Glover, Gael Garcia Bernal, Yusuke Iseya, Don McKellar |
| Director |
Fernando Meirelles |
| Screenplay | Don McKellar, based on the novel by José Saramago |
| Music | Marco Antônio Guimarães |
| Cinematography | César Charlone |
| Editing | Daniel Rezende |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Made in | 2008 |
| Produced by | Rhombus Media, O2 Filmes, Bee Vine Pictures, Alliance Films, Ancine, Asmik Ace Entertainment, BNDES, Corus Entertainment, Fox Filmes do Brasil, GAGA Communications, IFF/CINV, Movie Central Network, Téléfilm Canada |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Diane de Beer | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Laetitia Pople | 15 |  |
| Cape Times Carina Chocano | 5 |  |
| iAfrica.com Nils van der Linden | 13 |  |
| 24.com Finn Gregory | 15 | |
| Box Office Richard Mowe  Blindness is definitely worth a look | 15 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Blindness is one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films I've ever seen. It is an allegory about a group of people who survive under great stress, but frankly I would rather have seen them perish than sit through the final three-quarters of the film | 8 | |
| eye Weekly Jason Anderson Carefully wrought and mostly effective adaptation. | 10 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli Blindness is a fascinating intellectual exercise that explores how conditions and relationships might devolve in a closed community such as this one. | 15 | |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs While I'm sure there will be those who see all sorts of deep meaning in what Meirelles is showing, it's not a novel idea (see The Lord of the Flies and other such stories) and clearly not that engaging of one. | 8 | |
| Metacritic.com 31 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 144 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer This allegorical disaster film about society's reaction to mass blindness is mottled and self-satisfied; provocative but not as interesting as its premise implies. | 8 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 15825 Netizens Intense, slow, gritty, powerful and methodic. | 14 | |
Average .. 55% | 11 | |