Cannes finalizes lineup with 'Blindness'

April 29, 2008 After keeping everyone in the dark for days, Festival de Cannes organizers took the wraps off the remaining lineup Tuesday, unveiling Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles' "Blindness" as their May 14 opening-night film. "Blindness," the English-language adaptation of Jose Saramago's best-selling mystery novel, stars Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal in a story about a city struck by a strange blindness pandemic. The director's acclaimed Rio-based crime drama "City of God" screened in 2002 at the festival before launching an international career that has included "The Constant Gardener" and "City of Men."

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