Grim Romanian film favorite as Cannes winds up
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When director Pedro Almodovar  was named hot favorite to triumph at the Cannes Film Festival  in 2006, he called it a curse after he failed to win.
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A searing abortion drama from Romania takes the festival's top prize, while the Americans are largely ignored
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Two very different directors  have zoomed in on an individual&#039;s anguish in their new films,  bucking the trend at the Cannes film festival so far for  broader political and social dramas.
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Arts & entertainment: A disturbing tale of illegal abortion in communist-era Romania has won the Cannes film festival's top prize.
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Prime Minister Adrian Nastase has not secured enough votes for an outright victory in the first round of Romania&#39;s presidential elections.
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The climax of the Cannes Film Festival looms, with the jury set to annouce this year's winner of the Palme d'Or.
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CANNES, France  - It is the world's greatest film festival and everybody in movies wants to be there. But that doesn't mean they all have fun at Cannes.
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CANNES, France  - A hard-hitting Romanian film set towards the end of the communist era won the Cannes Film Festival's top honor on Sunday.
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When American film maker Quentin  Tarantino called today&#39;s Italian cinema &quot;depressing,&quot; many in  the industry hoped the Venice film festival would prove him  wrong.
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Exit polls show Romaniaâs ruling party leading in parliamentary elections, but forced into a runoff in the race for president. But the governing Social Democratic Party was falling short of gaining a parliamentary
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Which movie will win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize Sunday? Critical favorites include a small, socially conscious Romanian film about an illegal abortion and the Coen brothers' tale of a ruthless killer in Texas.
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Cannes still parties hard, but there's a velvet rope everywhere you turn.
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Two films at the Cannes film  festival portray how the lack of jobs, money and social  recognition in Europe can drive men to desperation.
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CANNES, France  - Critics are struggling to pick a winner ahead of Sunday's award ceremony at the Cannes Film Festival, but several are tipping a hard-hitting Romanian picture to walk away with the coveted Palme d'Or.
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Two films from Latin America caused a last-minute stir at the Cannes Film Festival &amp;#151; one a riveting tale of escape from a secret Argentine prison and the other a terrifying, bloody fairy tale.
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The latest social-realism drama to emerge from Romania's New Wave is about a women seeking an illegal abortion during the CeauÅescu regime.
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BUCHAREST - Romanians went to the polls on Sunday for a general election and the first round of a presidential vote, marking the end of the era of Ion Iliescu in the former Soviet state.