French schoolroom film wins top prize in Cannes (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
CANNES, France (Reuters) -"Entre les murs" (The Class), a film set in a tough Parisian high school and based on an autobiographical novel by Francois Begaudeau, won the Palme d'Or for best picture at the Cannes festival on Sunday.
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