Blindness

From Nobel Prize winning author Jose Saramago and acclaimed director Fernando
Meirelles (“The Constant Gardener,” “City of God”) comes the compelling story of humanity in the
grip of an epidemic of mysterious blindness. It is an unflinching exploration of human nature, both bad
and good--people's selfishness, opportunism, and indifference, but also their capacity for empathy,
love and sheer perseverance.

It begins in a flash, as one man is instantaneously struck blind while driving home from
work, his whole world suddenly turned to an eerie, milky haze. One by one, each person he encounters
– his wife, his doctor, even the seemingly good samaritan who gives him a lift home – will in due
course suffer the same unsettling fate. As the contagion spreads, and panic and paranoia set in across
the city, the newly blind victims of the “White Sickness” are rounded up and quarantined within a
crumbling, abandoned mental asylum, where all semblance of ordinary life begins to break down.

But inside the quarantined hospital, there is one secret eyewitness: one woman (four-time
Academy Award® nominee Julianne Moore) who has not been affected but has pretended she is blind
in order to stay beside her beloved husband (Mark Ruffalo). Armed with increasing courage and the
will to survive, she will lead a makeshift family of seven people on a journey, through horror and love,
depravity and beauty, warfare and wonder, to break out of the hospital and into the devastated city
where they may be the only hope left.

Their journey shines a light on both the dangerous fragility of society and the exhilarating
spirit of humanity. It is brought to life by Academy Award® nominated director Fernando Meirelles
from a screenplay by Tony Award winner Don McKellar, based on the international bestseller by Jose
Saramago, and an ensemble cast that includes: Julianne Moore (“Far From Heaven,” “The Hours”),
Mark Ruffalo (“Zodiac,” “Reservation Road”), Danny Glover (“Dreamgirls,” “The Color Purple”),
Gael García Bernal (“Babel,” “The Motorcycle Diaries,” “Y tu mamá también”), Alice Braga (“I Am
Legend,” “City of God”), Yusuke Iseya (“Sukiyaki Western Django,” “Kakuto”), Yoshino Kimura
(“Sukiyaki Western Django,” “Semishigure”), Don McKellar (“Monkey Warfare,” “Childstar”), and
Maury Chaykin (“Where the Truth Lies,” “Being Julia”).

BLINDNESS is produced by Niv Fichman, Andrea Barata Ribeiro and Sonoko Sakai.
The executive producers are Gail Egan, Simon Channing Williams, Tom Yoda, Akira Ishii and Victor
Loewy. The co-producers are Bel Berlinck and Sari Friedland.

Distributor: Golden Scene Company Limited

Release date: 12 Mar 2009

Category: IIB

Duration: 121 mins

Cinemas:
1. AMC Pacific Place
2. Broadway-Olympian City
3. The Grand
4. UA-Langham Place
5.UA-Cityplaza