Today it was announced that the movie Blindness (which features Michael Mahonen) will be the opening film at this year’s Cannes International Film Festival in France; and it will compete for the festival’s highest honour, the Palme D’Or.
Blindness is a co-production between Canada, Brazil, and Japan, which was filmed, in part, in Toronto last year.
[Don] McKellar’s screenplay, based on Portuguese Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago’s bestselling book Blindness, tracks a bizarre blindness pandemic. The film’s international cast includes U.S. actors Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Danny Glover, Mexico’s Gael Garcia Bernal, Brazilian actress Alice Braga and a host of Canadians, including Sandra Oh, Susan Coyne, Martha Burns and Don McKellar, who spent years adapting the script from Saramago’s novel.
The festival takes place May 14-25.
