Fernando Meirelles

...bravely leads a small group to freedom, including her husband, the first blind man and his wife, a beautiful young woman (Meirelles vet Alice Braga) and an old man (Danny Glover). Latter also provides incessant voiceover narration that,...

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...to perfection), Alice Braga, and Danny Glover. The film played well, and as the credits rolled, the audience gave Meirelles' a warm Cannes welcome - that is, a lengthy standing ovation. (In France, it's all about the director.) After...

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...group of youngsters trying to survive in one of Rio de Janeiro's most violent slums. Braga and Meirelles - who also directed The Constant Gardener - are both natives of Sao Paulo and first met when she was a teenager taking breaks from...

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...Jovovich, Dennis Hopper and Giovanna Mezzogiorno. Brazilian helmer Fernando Meirelles looks like a lock with the drama "Blindness," toplining Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Alice Braga. Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns with...

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...about mass blindness. Not that Meirelles doesn't come close at times. He elicits excellent performances throughout, especially from Alice Braga as a blind prostitute. Cinematographer Cesar Charlone gives us the "white blindness" of the...

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...19 release Stateside. After failing to obtain the film rights to the bestseller "Blindness" from author Jose Saramago in 1995, Meirelles was amazed when almost a decade later Canadian actor-writer-producer Don McKellar, who had finally...

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...screen. The characters in Meirelles's film may be ciphers, as they are in the mechanical universe of Saramago's novel, but they are also Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga and the rest of those names listed in parentheses above. And...

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But Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, whose "City of God" (2002) was so wild and vibrant, strikes the same gloomy tone as in his 2005 drama, "The Constant Gardner," a constant reminder (as if one were needed) that this is heavy stuff.

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...19. Meirelles, a native of this South American metropolis of 10 million, where parts of the movie were shot, said that, among other objectives, he hoped his blog would encourage budding filmmakers to follow their personal muses. "[When]...

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