Fahrenheit 9/11 Wins Cannes
This just in, and a bit of a shocker: Moore’s film has won the Palme d’Or best film award at Cannes, the first documentary to win the award in nearly half a century. While Farenheit 9/11 was popularly received, it was not so much expected to win.
Moore noted, I think rather correctly, that “you will ensure that the American people will see this movie…You have put a huge light on this.” With the predominantly glowing reviews and the top honor at Cannes, the film is practically certain to find a distributor and see the light of projectors in the U.S. before election day.
Naturally, some will use the French film prize to smear the film and its maker as pro-French and anti-American. But the truth of the matter is, the film is not anti-American, it is anti-Bush–there is a huge difference–and it’s not just the French who hate Bush, it is pretty much the entire world. Don’t mistake that–they like us. Just not him.
Fahrenheit 9/11 trailer here http://www.VideosOnWeb.com/Demos/911.html