Rachel Weisz boards Meirelles' '360'

Rachel Weisz is joining Fernando Meirelles' upcoming film "360," which reunites the actress with the director after "The Constant Gardner." Peter Morgan ("The Queen," "Frost/Nixon") is writing the screenplay.

Variety says the film follows a pair of characters and their sexual relations, but that's pretty much all that has been revealed about the plot so far. It's based on the 1900 play "Reigen" and the drama "La Ronde."

Meirelles also directed "City of God" and "Blindness." As for Weisz, she starred in "The Lovely Bones" recently. She's got "The Whistleblower" and "Dream House" coming to theaters in the near future.

Review: “Blindness”

Seen on: October 3, 2008

The players: Director: Fernando Meirelles, Writers: Don McKellar, Jose Saramago (book), Cast: Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover, Alice Braga

Facts of interest: Opened this year's Cannes Film Festival.

The plot: The film follows a small group of people struggling to survive after an epidemic of blindness descends upon their city.

Our thoughts: Fernando Meirelles’ “Blindness” is not as powerful or engaging as his previous works “The Constant Gardener” and “Cidade de Deus,” but the film is definitely not as bas as some critics made it out to be. The nature of the subject matter examined in this mystery thriller is one that concerns all of us, but it’s the way it is presented here that may not be appealing to large audiences.

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'Blindness' web reviews

Fernando Meirelles returns to the big screen with "Blindness," a mystery thriller about an epidemic of blindness that descends upon a large city. Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore star in the lead roles. The film premiered at Cannes and pulled mixed reviews. Let's see what our online friends have to say about it:

• Katey Rich at Cinema Blend: "A sharp view of humanity with a glimmer of hope, 'Blindness' is a movie for our times-- flawed, brutal, with key moments of brilliance."

• LatinoReview's Ron Henriques: "Though the third act takes the picture in a direction filled with hope and perhaps freedom, the dramatic power is already lost and the story is turned into nothing more than a morality tale."

• James Rocchi at Cinematical: "But while Blindness can be faulted for many things, it also has to be respected for its ambition, craft, and effort."

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Watch the first five minutes of 'Blindness'

Yahoo! posted the first five minutes of Fernando Meirelles' mystery thriller "Blindness," which opens tomorrow. I didn't watch it because I want to walk into the film not knowing how it kicks off, but I decided to post the clip in case you want to get a small taste of the film. Watch at own risk! In the film starring Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore, an epidemic of blindness descends upon a large city.