Film About Abortion Takes Cannes' Prize

[pepperbear]

http://www.topix.net/content/ap/3947727428146307282626754877890386738117

Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize Sunday with '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,' a harrowing portrait of an illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania.

The low-budget, naturalistic film about a student who goes through horrors to ensure that her friend can have a secret abortion beat out 21 other movies in competition for the Riviera festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or.

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[uppityperson]

1. pro-choice=being able to chose between legal or illegal aborition.

[MrPrax]

2. Righteous!!!

Good to see Cannes isn't falling for the MM ruse this time.

As if Americans give a shit about what France thinks?

Which really brings up the point about advocacy documentaries done by rich guys who insist their important message requires 10 bucks to view?

Cannes is fine and all...but they screw up as much as the Academy does.