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Helmer Audrey Diwan Says Abortion Drama ‘Happening’ Irrefutable “Reality Of One Girl” As Film Opens With Reproductive Choice At Risk – Specialty Preview
Audrey Diwan’s Happening launched New Directors/New Films in April, mesmerizing viewers with the story of a brilliant literature student from a working-class background seeking an abortion to keep her life from derailing. In 1963 France the procedure was illegal. The suspense builds with each week a new chapter title as she seeks help from doctors, friends, the boy she slept with, and her body continue to change. Everyone backs away, judgmental, terrified of being thrown in prison for helping, or both.
