{"id":3851,"date":"2008-11-21T12:14:17","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T11:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2008-11-28T10:41:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T09:41:35","slug":"interview-fernando-meirelles-on-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/11\/21\/interview-fernando-meirelles-on-blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Fernando Meirelles on Blindness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blindness<\/a> <\/strong>is the film\u00a0adaptation<\/a>\u00a0of the 1995\u00a0novel<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Saramago<\/a>\u00a0about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness.<\/p>\n

Directed by\u00a0Fernando Meirelles<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it stars\u00a0Julianne Moore<\/a>,\u00a0Mark Ruffalo<\/a>\u00a0,\u00a0Danny Glover<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Gael Garcia Bernal<\/a>\u00a0as a group of people struggling to survive amidst the chaos that ensues.<\/p>\n

In recent years Fernando has directed such acclaimed films as City of God<\/a>\u00a0(2002) and The Constant Gardener<\/a> (2005) and\u00a0I recently spoke to him in London about this latest film.<\/p>\n

You can listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Fernando_Meirelles_on_Blindness.mp3]\n

Download\u00a0it as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch the trailer here:<\/p>\n

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Blindness<\/strong>\u00a0is out at UK cinemas from today<\/em><\/p>\n

>\u00a0Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a>
\n>\u00a0Fernando Meirelles<\/a>\u00a0at the IMDb
\n>\u00a0Official UK site for Blindness<\/a>
\n>\u00a0Find out more about the novel<\/a>\u00a0at Wikipedia
\n>\u00a0Get local showtimes for the film via Google Movies<\/a><\/p>\n

[Image \u00a9 Ken Woroner 2008 \/ Courtesy of Pathe]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blindness is the film\u00a0adaptation\u00a0of the 1995\u00a0novel\u00a0by\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Saramago\u00a0about a society suffering an epidemic of blindness. Directed by\u00a0Fernando Meirelles\u00a0it stars\u00a0Julianne Moore,\u00a0Mark Ruffalo\u00a0,\u00a0Danny Glover\u00a0and\u00a0Gael Garcia Bernal\u00a0as a group of people struggling to survive amidst the chaos that ensues. In recent years Fernando has directed such acclaimed films as City of God\u00a0(2002) and The Constant Gardener (2005) and\u00a0I recently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[167,667,138],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}