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Ruffalo leading the ‘Blind’ness

Published on June 5, 2007

Many folks are already chalking this down as one of the must see films for 08’, coincidently, actor Mark Ruffalo appears to be chalking up a slew of intriguing roles with dynamic filmmakers. Variety reports that Ruffalo will star in Blindness helmed by Cidade De Deus and The Constant Gardener director Fernando Meirelles.

Scripted by Don McKellar, the English-language film based on the 1995 novel by Portuguese Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, is a philosophical thriller about an epidemic of blindness that sweeps through an unnamed contemporary city and pushes society to the brink of breakdown. Ruffalo will play a doctor who loses his sight along with everyone else in town, except the doc's wife (played by Julianne Moore) – Daniel Craig was once attached to play the part.

Apart from the Focus Features project, Ruffalo has a voice part in Chicago 10 and will be later seen on screen on Ryan Johnson’s The Brothers Bloom, Terry George’s Reservation Road and the mysteriously overdue Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).