Romanian abortion film wins Cannes prize
CANNES, France - A harrowing film about illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania beat 21 movies by well-known directors such as
Quentin Tarantino, Ethan and Joel Coen, and Wong Kar-wai to win the
Cannes Film Festival’s top prize Sunday.
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s low-budget film, “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” depicts the horrors a student goes through to ensure her friend can have a secret abortion.
Mungiu, who was awarded the Palme d’Or by actress
Jane Fonda, said he didn’t even have enough money to shoot the film just six months ago. He hoped the win would inspire other “small filmmakers from small countries.”
“You don’t necessarily need a big budget and big stars to tell a story that everyone will listen to,” said 39-year-old Mungiu, the first Romanian to win Cannes’ top prize.
The films shown at Cannes’ 60th anniversary edition ran the gamut of weighty subjects, from death and loss to abortion and aging. The winners of the awards, announced by jury president
Stephen Frears (director of “The Queen”), reflected the darker themes.
Source: news.yahoo.com
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