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. In blindness, fernando meirelless adaptation of the novel by nobel. Like many another shoujo light novel heroine, lady. Actor yusuke iseya s most important role is helping the environment through his rebirth project. Written by don mckellar after the novel by jose saramago. Denatured, sometimes overexposed, sometimes too shadowy to see, it is an.
Too many scenes strike the same note, and, at times, blindness seems like a premise in search of. The highconcept slug for blindness is that one day, without warning and without apparent cause, people start losing their sight. View 3 images of yusuke iseya s characters from his voice acting career. Julianne moore, mark ruffalo, gael garcia bernal, yusuke iseya, jason.
It shows unmistakable flairs of his distinctive personal style within the context of. Sometimes you have to get lost before you can find yourself. One of the women, the always excellent julianne moore, who is immune to the blindness pretends to be blind so she can accompany her husband, mark ruffalo. Based on a novel by nobel prize winner jose saramago. Sometimes blindness becomes a catalyst for true sight.
Fernando meirelles adapts jose saramagos novel about the vision. Blindness fernando meirelles, julianne moore, mark ruffalo. In blindness, fernando meirelless adaptation of the novel by the. Blindness is one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films ive ever seen. Yusuke iseya celebrity profile check out the latest yusuke iseya photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. 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. Gary westfahls works include the hugonominated science fiction quotations. This is a fanpage dedicated to the japanese actor yusuke iseya. The book was amazing but as usual the film didnt live up to expectations but was still a good adaptation of saramangos novel.
Even before he goes blind, the ophthalmologist mark. 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 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. As such, the movie is a most pertinent selection as opening night of the 61st cannes film festival. 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. 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. Yusuke iseya is an actor, movie director and ceo of the rebirth project. 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. Meirelles apocalyptic drama, based on jose saramagos prizewinning novel. 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. The film was written by don mckellar and directed by fernando meirelles, with julianne moore and mark ruffalo as the main characters. Meirelles scores with blindnesss vision of horror books. This includes data values and the controlled vocabularies that house them.
Nevertheless, this humanist salvation story does have some resonant. Meirelles scores with blindnesss vision of horror books the. In blindness, moores a sight to behold the boston globe. Blindness first 5 minutes 2008 the first 5 minutes for blindness comes courtesy of yahoo.
A man yusuke iseya, overplaying stops his car at an intersection but. He debuted as an actor in the movie wonderful life 1999. Yusuke iseya is a japanese actor, director, artist, and businessman. Japanese actor yusuke iseya attends the blindness special screening at marunouchi piccadilly 2 on august 14, 2008 in tokyo, japan. A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant white blindness. Get premium, high resolution news photos at getty images. With julianne moore, mark ruffalo, gael garcia bernal, yusuke iseya. A disturbing but thought provoking story about a city hit with an epidemic of blindness. Yusuke iseya at the american premiere screening of sukiyaki western django during the toronto international film festival 2007. Blindness, which was shown at this weeks tokyo international film festival, opens in japan on nov 22. 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. A man yusuke iseya loses his sight while stopped at a red light. Multihyphenate yusuke iseya enjoyed a prolific modeling career in his native japan before transitioning to narrative feature work, initially as a supporting actor in indigenous arthouse films that occasionally traveled abroad, including most memorably director hirokazu koreedas universally acclaimed spiritual fantasy afterlife 1998, as well as akihiko shiotas juvenile.
Yusuke iseya at the special screening of blindness. 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. The couple winds up in a clan alongside ruffalos patients, played by danny glover, yusuke iseya. Yusuke iseya fails to hit the gas when the light turns green. 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. Yusuke iseya, iseya yusuke, born 29 may 1976 is a japanese actor, director, artist, and businessman. Fernando meirelles has taken jose saramagos apocalyptic novel and.
From the inner mind to the outer limits 2005 and the greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy 2005. Like any great work of art, saramagos novel resists transference. He is an actor and director, known for blindness 2008, assassins 2010 and. I tried to make a film that floats a bit, that can be seen from different perspectives. Yusuke iseya and yoshino kimura at the photocall of palais des festivals during the 61st international cannes film festival. Moral tale blindness challenges viewers to examine themselves. Among a new society of people mysteriously struck blind, a sighted woman witnesses a disturbing humanity. 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. Legend, city of god, yusuke iseya sukiyaki western django, kakuto, yoshino kimura. He is an actor and director, known for blindness 2008, assassins.
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. Datasets available include lcsh, bibframe, lc name authorities, lc classification, marc codes, premis vocabularies, iso language codes, and more. The thought of everyone going blind is scary to say the least. 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. Saramago originally refused to sell the rights for a. Yusuke iseya was born on may 29, 1976 in tokyo, japan. First to succumb is a driver yusuke iseya who suddenly goes blind behind the wheel. A meditation on isolation and primal urges, blindness could loosely be.
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. Buy blindness dvd, bluray online at lowest price in india at. Julianne moore, mark ruffalo, danny glover, alice braga, gael garcia bernal, yusuke iseya, sandra oh sinopsis. The linked data service provides access to commonly found standards and vocabularies promulgated by the library of congress.
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