Blindness (Vintage classics)

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Fernando Meirelles to Direct Blindness". ComingSoon.net. Crave Online Media, LLC. 2006-09-13. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30 . Retrieved 2007-06-18. Oscar-nominated director films movie based on a Nobel Prize winning book in Guelph". guelph.ca. City of Guelph. Archived from the original on 2007-10-21 . Retrieved 2007-09-14. a b Jaggi, Maya (22 November 2008). "New ways of seeing". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 22 November 2008. An outdoor performance adaptation by the Polish group Teatr KTO, was first presented in June 2010. It has since been performed at a number of venues, including the Old College Quad of the University of Edinburgh during the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Morris, Wesley (October 3, 2008). "In 'Blindness,' Moore's a sight to behold". The Boston Globe . Retrieved February 19, 2011. Paradoxically, though, the more universal his literary work and thinking became, the more Saramago rooted himself in his Portuguese, and originally rural, identity. Like Jorge de Sena before him, he went into exile, but he also became one of the greatest modern Portuguese humanists and universalists, and a modernizer of the Portuguese and Iberian cultures. His proposed idea of transibericity invites us to think all Iberian cultures together, both before and after the Portuguese and Spanish colonizations, avoiding all hierarchies or impositions. The task, he once said, is of “translating, while respecting the place from which [we] came and the place to which [we] are going.” Still, as I already said, Saramago denied being a writer of historical novels, maintaining that his sole commitment was to “reinventing history,” in the sense of bringing to the forefront what has been excluded or silenced. He compared the novelist to the historiographer because he couldn’t conceive an apprehension of the world that was not fictional—just as neuroscientists and cognitivists today maintain that our memory is both highly selective and far from being objective. In one of his most crucial essays, “History and Fiction,” published in 1990, he said that both the writer and the historical researcher are “choosers of facts” and “makers of history.” Following acclaimed novels such as The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis and The History of the Siege of Lisbon, Saramago was hailed by literary critics for his complex yet elegant style, his broad range of references and his wit. [14]

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In 1998 Saramago was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature with the prize motivation: "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality." [21] a b "The screen jury at the Cannes Film Festival, 2008". Screen International. Archived from the original on March 18, 2009 . Retrieved 2008-06-12.

Goldstein, Gregg (2007-09-09). "Miramax nabs U.S. rights to Meirelles' 'Blindess' ". The Hollywood Reporter. The Nielsen Company. Archived from the original on 2007-09-14 . Retrieved 2008-03-11. Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter described Blindness as "provocative but predictable cinema", startling but failing to surprise. Honeycutt criticized the film's two viewpoints: Julianne Moore's character, the only one who can see, is slow to act against atrocities, and the behavior of Danny Glover's character comes off as "slightly pompous". Honeycutt explained, "This philosophical coolness is what most undermines the emotional response to Meirelles' film. His fictional calculations are all so precise and a tone of deadly seriousness swamps the grim action." [38] Justin Chang of Variety described the film: " Blindness emerges onscreen both overdressed and undermotivated, scrupulously hitting the novel's beats yet barely approximating, so to speak, its vision." Chang thought that Julianne Moore gave a strong performance but did not feel that the film captured the impact of Saramago's novel. [39] Roger Ebert called Blindness "one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films I've ever seen." [40] A. O. Scott of The New York Times stated that, although it "is not a great film, ... it is, nonetheless, full of examples of what good filmmaking looks like." [41] a b c d e f g h i j k l "Blindness production notes" (PDF). Cannes Film Festival. Focus Features. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-08-13 . Retrieved 2008-05-20.The Unexpected Fantasist, a portrait of José Saramago, written by Fernanda Eberstadt and published 26 August 2007, in The New York Times Magazine The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris raved about the leading actress: "Julianne Moore is a star for these terrible times. She tends to be at her best when the world is at its worst. And things are pretty bad in "Blindness," a perversely enjoyable, occasionally harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's 1995 disaster allegory. [...] "Blindness" is a movie whose sense of crisis feels right on time, even if the happy ending feels like a gratuitous emotional bailout. Meirelles ensures that the obviousness of the symbolism (in the global village the blind need guidance!) doesn't negate the story's power, nor the power of Moore's performance. The more dehumanizing things get, the fiercer she becomes." [45]