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Hard-hitting Brazilian film opens Cannes festival (Reuters)

 
Reuters - Hard-hitting Brazilian film "Blindness" gets the Cannes film festival under way on Wednesday, kicking off 12 hectic days of movies, publicity and late-night revelry in the Riviera resort. (link)

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