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Fernando Mereilles

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In the Land of the Blind

By Chris Barsanti

Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s Blindness fails because the source material doesn’t easily lend itself to cinema, and because the filmmaker is clearly out of his depth. [3 October 2008]

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