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Fernando Meirelles’ BLINDNESS to open Cannes
Posted by Kurt Halfyard at 6:34am.
Posted in Film News , Thriller, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mexico & South America, Continental Europe & Russia, USA & Canada, Random Festival News.
During the previous Cannes Announcement, there was speculation as to why Fernando Meirelles‘ Blindness, a very handsomely produced disease/apocalypse drama - 28 Weeks Later without all the gunfire and explosions - was not in the initial offering of Competition films. After all it’s a Brazilian/Canadian/Japanese co-production starring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover, Sandra Oh and Gael Garcia Bernal, written by Canadian screenwriter/actor/director Don McKellar and based on Portuguese author José Saramago‘s Nobel Prize winning novel. What better way to kick off the first big worldwide festival of 2008 than a world-wide arthouse apocalypse yarn? An announcement from the festival group yesterday has indicated that Blindness not only at the festival, but is in fact the kick-off film for the Festival Competition section.
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