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The Cannes Film Festival has officially announced that Fernando Meirelles' Blindness (Miramax, 9.12) will open the festival on Wednesday, 5.15. Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover and Gael Garcia Bernal costar.

On top of which a third French film -- Laurent Cantet's Entre Les Murs, with Francois Begaudeau -- has been added to the Competition:
An American film has also been added to the Competition slate: James Gray's Two Lovers, a Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a guy (River Phoenix) torn between the good woman his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor (Gwynneth Paltrow).
As tipped earlier by Variety, Steve McQueen's Hunger will open Un Certain Regard on Thursday, 5.15.
French actress Jeanne Balibar and the Iranian author-director Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis) have joined the jury, which will be led this year by Sean Penn.
And finally, it turns out that Barry Levinson's What Just Happened? -- the Sundance bomb costarring Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, Catherine Keener, Robin Wright Penn, John Turturro and Sean Penn -- will close the festival after all. De Niro will present the Palm d'Or at the closing night ceremonies.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on April 29, 2008 at 11:29 AM
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at April 29, 2008 12:07 PM
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at April 29, 2008 12:08 PM
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at April 29, 2008 12:20 PM
Posted by nemo
at April 29, 2008 12:32 PM
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says ...Re River Phoenix: It would be interesting if the George Sluizer film with River and Judy Davis that was not completed could be utilized as part of a future documentary.
Posted by Terry McCarty
at April 29, 2008 12:36 PM
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says ...I love Cannes' loyalty to James Gray (this is his third straight film in the Cannes competition). He's truly one of the most underrated filkmmakers working today and this announcement really heals the disappointment I felt when this film was excluded from the original competition announcement. Apparently, this is a re-make of White Nights, one of Visconti's greatest films. It's also cool to see Gray and Soderbergh in competition at the same time as they recorded a commentary together for Gray's director's cut of The Yards.
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at April 29, 2008 12:50 PM
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at April 29, 2008 01:31 PM
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