Cannes shows its grittier side
Updated on 14 May 2008
The buzz may be about Indiana Jones, but this year's Cannes film festival is showing its grittier side, as Nicholas Glass reports.
Arthouse movies feature strongly among the official selection, from Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands to a four-hour epic about revolutionary leader Che Guevara.
The festival opens with the film Blindness, by the Brazilian director of the acclaimed City of God.
It offers a nightmarish vision of society in meltdown as a plague of blindness sweeps the world.
