Cannes' top prize goes to film about abortion (CNN.com)
CANNES, France (AP) -- 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.
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