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| Directed by | Fernando Meirelles |
| Screenplay by | Don McKellar |
| Based on | Blindness by José Saramago |
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| Cinematography | César Charlone |
| Edited by | Daniel Rezende |
| Music by | Uakti |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
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| Budget | $25 million |
| Box office | $19.8−20.1 million[3][4] |
Blindness is a 2008 English-language thriller film about a society that suffers an epidemic of blindness. The film is an adaptation of the 1995 novel of the same name by the Portuguese author José Saramago. The film was written by Don McKellar and directed by Fernando Meirelles, starring Julianne Moore as the doctor's wife and Mark Ruffalo as the doctor. Saramago originally refused to sell the rights for a film adaptation, but the producers were able to acquire it with the condition that the film would be set in an unnamed and unrecognizable city. Blindness premiered as the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008, and was released in Canada as part of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2008.
- ^ "Blindness and Knowing". 3 October 2022.
- ^ Echeverría, Julia (2017). "Moving beyond Latin America: Fernando Meirelles's Blindness and the epidemic of transnational co-productions". Transnational Cinemas. 8 (2): 113–127. doi:10.1080/20403526.2017.1249072. S2CID 151506780.
- ^ "Blindness (2008) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
- ^ "Blindness (2008)". Box Office Mojo. 2008-10-16. Retrieved 2010-06-20.