First to succumb is a driver yusuke iseya who suddenly goes blind behind the wheel. Moral tale blindness challenges viewers to examine themselves. Blindness stars yoshino kimura, left, julianne moore, and brazilian director fernando meirelles are joined by former sumo star oyakata shibata to crack open a sake barrel at roppongi hills on monday. Too many scenes strike the same note, and, at times, blindness seems like a premise in search of. Among a new society of people mysteriously struck blind, a sighted woman witnesses a disturbing humanity. It shows unmistakable flairs of his distinctive personal style within the context of. Yusuke iseya at the american premiere screening of sukiyaki western django during the toronto international film festival 2007. Buy blindness dvd, bluray online at lowest price in india at. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty images. 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 threequarters of the film.
Legend, city of god, yusuke iseya sukiyaki western django, kakuto, yoshino kimura. He is an actor and director, known for blindness 2008, assassins. Even before he goes blind, the ophthalmologist mark. Fernando meirelles adapts jose saramagos novel about the vision. A disturbing but thought provoking story about a city hit with an epidemic of blindness.
In blindness, the bleak new film from acclaimed director fernando meirelles city of men, the constant gardener, a major city is struck with an epidemic of the white sickness, a. The thought of everyone going blind is scary to say the least. Nevertheless, this humanist salvation story does have some resonant. A man yusuke iseya, overplaying stops his car at an intersection but. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them. From the inner mind to the outer limits 2005 and the greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy 2005. Meirelles scores with blindnesss vision of horror books the. Yusuke iseya celebrity profile check out the latest yusuke iseya photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. R blindness, a story in which characters are nameless, is set in an unidentified metropolis where cranky commuters being the day engaged in chaotic road rage. When a plague of blindness overtakes an entire city, a woman whos keeping her sight a secret steps up to lead a group of victims out of quarantine. Meirelles scores with blindnesss vision of horror books. An engaging story with a good heroine, and if youre looking for something a little different in the genre, this is a good place to turn. As the first victim, a japanese man yusuke iseya, describes it, its not like the accepted norm for blindness, the absence of something and a curtain of black.
A man yusuke iseya loses his sight while stopped at a red light. Datasets available include lcsh, bibframe, lc name authorities, lc classification, marc codes, premis vocabularies, iso language codes, and more. Blindness is one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films ive ever seen. Yusuke iseya at the special screening of blindness. Blindness fernando meirelles, julianne moore, mark ruffalo. Julianne moore, mark ruffalo, danny glover, alice braga, gael garcia bernal, yusuke iseya, sandra oh sinopsis. The japanese component is provided by sukiyaki western djangos yusuke iseya as the first citizen to suddenly go blind in an epidemic that soon engulfs the films mythologized society.
Written by don mckellar after the novel by jose saramago. The couple winds up in a clan alongside ruffalos patients, played by danny glover, yusuke iseya. Actor yusuke iseya s most important role is helping the environment through his rebirth project. The linked data service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the library of congress. This is a fanpage dedicated to the japanese actor yusuke iseya. Yusuke iseya was born on may 29, 1976 in tokyo, japan. With julianne moore, mark ruffalo, gael garcia bernal, yusuke iseya. Sometimes blindness becomes a catalyst for true sight. The infections ground zero is a japanese businessman yusuke iseya who staggers sightlessly from his luxury automobile which is promptly stolen by an opportunist thief who also goes blind. I tried to make a film that floats a bit, that can be seen from different perspectives.
The book was amazing but as usual the film didnt live up to expectations but was still a good adaptation of saramangos novel. Blindness, which was shown at this weeks tokyo international film festival, opens in japan on nov 22. Julianne moore, mark ruffalo, gael garcia bernal, yusuke iseya, jason. A meditation on isolation and primal urges, blindness could loosely be. In blindness, fernando meirelless adaptation of the novel by nobel.
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness. Denatured, sometimes overexposed, sometimes too shadowy to see, it is an. Based on a novel by nobel prize winner jose saramago. Yusuke iseya, iseya yusuke, born 29 may 1976 is a japanese actor, director, artist, and businessman. The highconcept slug for blindness is that one day, without warning and without apparent cause, people start losing their sight. He is an actor and director, known for blindness 2008, assassins 2010 and. View 3 images of yusuke iseya s characters from his voice acting career. Yusuke iseya and yoshino kimura at the photocall of palais des festivals during the 61st international cannes film festival.
Sometimes you have to get lost before you can find yourself. In most apocalyptic scenarios there is a certain level hope,but in this case you would be completely helpless,even the already blind would be helpless as the infrastructure they rely on is delivered by the seeing. As such, the movie is a most pertinent selection as opening night of the 61st cannes film festival. Actors yusuke iseya and yoshino kimura attend the blindness photocall at the palais des festivals during the 61st international cannes film festival on may 14, 2008 in cannes, france. Gary westfahls works include the hugonominated science fiction quotations. Like any great work of art, saramagos novel resists transference. Like many another shoujo light novel heroine, lady. Saramago originally refused to sell the rights for a. In blindness, moores a sight to behold the boston globe. Yusuke iseya fails to hit the gas when the light turns green. An ambitious but falwed rendition of the bestselling book of the same title by nobel prize winner jose saramago, blindness is a socially significant and gloomy film that reflects our zeitgeist post 911. The film was written by don mckellar and directed by fernando meirelles, with julianne moore and mark ruffalo as the main characters.
Meirelles apocalyptic drama, based on jose saramagos prizewinning novel. Fernando meirelles has taken jose saramagos apocalyptic novel and. In a nutshell, the movie follows a group of folks who fall victim to a blindness epidemic and get thrown into an abandoned facility by the military to be quarantined. Blindness first 5 minutes 2008 the first 5 minutes for blindness comes courtesy of yahoo. Yusuke iseya is an actor, movie director and ceo of the rebirth project. Prepared to step out of his comfort zone and say what he really thinks, yusuke iseya is something of a rarity in the japanese entertainment industry. In blindness, fernando meirelless adaptation of the novel by the. Thus, the japanese man yusuke iseya is taken by his wife yoshino kimura to an ophthalmologist mark ruffalo, who is baffled by this sudden loss of sightthere is nothing physically wrong. Yusuke iseya is a japanese actor, director, artist, and businessman.
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