It generally pays to follow anything Luc Besson puts his name to. While he's mostly slowed down on the directorial work over the last few years, he remains a prolific force as a writer and producer, which is how we got such great films as District B13, Taken, and Tell No One. He seems to have a particular fondness for backing the earliest efforts of up and coming filmmakers, such as Xavier Gens and Olivier Megaton. He's at it again, and this time he's backing little known French director Xavier Palud's upcoming crime pic, Blind(aka À l'aveugle).
The film centers on a game of cat and mouse between a veteran homicide detective and his prime suspect in a murder investigation, a seemingly harmless but mysterious blind man. Lambert Wilson(The Matrix Reloaded, Babylon AD) stars alongside Jacques Gamblin. Looks like a pretty stylish thriller, and possibly a step up from Palud's underrated 2006 film, Them.
March looks to be the timeframe for a French release of Blind, and it's unlikely we'll see it here in the States. Then again, Besson was a producer on the great foreign film, Tell No One just a few years ago, and it was successful enough over here that it's currently being remade(whomp whomp). So who knows? Maybe we'll get it after all? Check out the trailer for Blind below...[24fps]
