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Grim drama opens Cannes film festival
Cannes, May 15 (MIA) - A grim Brazilian drama about society's descent into anarchy launched the Cannes film festival on Wednesday, and politics dominated the opening news conference held by jury president Sean Penn.
"Blindness," starring Julianne Moore, marked a somber start to 12 days of movies, publicity stunts and late-night revelry in the Riviera town, which prides itself on embracing weighty cinema as well as rolling out the red carpet for Hollywood royalty.
Directed by Brazil's Fernando Meirelles, of "City of God" renown, "Blindness" is an English-language adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago's novel of the same name, and tells the story of a plague of blindness sweeping the world.
Penn, who heads the nine-member jury that decides which of 22 entries in the main competition receives the coveted Palme d'Or for best film, hinted that the winner was likely to be one that tackled contemporary issues.
Among the other entries in competition is "Waltz With Bashir," the animated documentary about the 1982 Sabra and Shatila camp massacres which screened late on Wednesday.
It is up against Clint Eastwood's "Changeling," starring Angelina Jolie, who confirmed on Wednesday in an interview in Cannes that she was expecting twins with Brad Pitt.
Steven Soderbergh presents "Che," a two-part, four-and-a-half hour epic about Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara with Benicio del Toro in the title role.
The other two U.S. entries are James Gray's "Two Lovers," featuring Gwyneth Paltrow and Joaquin Phoenix, and Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York" with Philip Seymour Hoffman.
The biggest show in town this year is likely to be the latest installment of the Indiana Jones series, again starring Harrison Ford as the whip-wielding archaeologist in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" by Steven Spielberg.
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