At Cannes, 'Blindness' unseen?

April 25, 2008 The Fernando Meirelles drama, based on a novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Jose Saramago about a city struck by a plague of blindness, seemed custom-tailored for the festival. [...] domestic-rights holder Miramax (Focus Features holds international rights) rode the Cannes strategy to perfection last year with "No Country for Old Men." Most important, unlike Guillermo Arriaga's "The Burning Plain" and other auteur films that won't be at the fest, "Blindness" is actually finished.

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