aint this a corker! for the first time in 28 years a Canadian film will be opening the Cannes Film Festival !

It was six years in the making for Canadian script writer/actor/director Don McKellar (The Red Violin, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Highway 61) to adapt Jose Saramago's "Blindness" .

Brazilian Fernando Mereilles (City of God, The Constant Gardener, The City of Men) directed the film starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo. If there was ever a year I would shave my head to attend... !!!

I have misgivings about Moore playing the role of "the woman" though. For me she just doesn't carry enough weight to do it justice. ouch! I apologise. But this story almost made me puke it was so intensely good. The only other book that has had that affect on me was John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath".
Anyway, I would have liked to see them really work hard to cast it a little... more accurately. It would have been a lot truer to the dialogue in the book, as well as the vulnerability and ferocity that emerge from that character, if that role had been filled by someone like Shohreh Aghdashloo , Meryl Streep, or Glenn Close and while we're at it why not Christina Ricci or Mila Kunis as the young girl...

Regardless, I will wait with baited breath until its theatrical release!!

moot or hooey?
In the film "Michael Clayton" George Clooney gets his character's age wrong.