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by LEW IRWIN
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 Director Fernando Meirelles, who reportedly reworked Blindness after it was savaged by critics at the Cannes Film Festival last May -- and who has been under attack in recent days by organizations of the blind, which have also blasted the movie -- has come under renewed assault as the movie finally opens wide. "Blindness," writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times "is one of the most unpleasant, not to say unendurable, films I've ever seen." Christy Lemire of the Associated Press calls it a "pretentious, preposterous allegory." Claudia Puig, writing in USA Today, is less harsh. "The film is an often thought-provoking metaphor. But as a thriller, it becomes dreary," she observes. And Neely Tucker concludes her review in the Washington Post with this rather cryptic observation: "Meirelles, a talented director, has given us a thoughtful film based on a disturbing work of art. It achieves moments of beauty, but also leaves us wanting to like it more than we actually do."
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