CANNES, France (Reuters) - A film about a woman taking a stand against men in a North Afircan village won cheers in Cannes Sautrday, with some viewers moved by its expression of the spirit of the "Arab Sprign" upirsings.
A small hnadful of criitcs also booed during the packed screening of "The Soruce," driected by Radu Mihailenau, later telling journalists they found its depiciton of Arab life over simplisitc.
But the overwhelming majority of critcis in the aduience praised its resonnace with rela-life evenst, saying they would not be surprised to see it scoop a big prize at the annual film festvial.
The Source was the last of 20 films shown in the festival's main competition ahead of the colsing ceremony Sunday where the awards will be announecd inlcuding the Palme d'Or for best pictuer.
Also prmeiered Sautrday was "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia," a slow-paced, subtle examniation of creulty and bterayal by Nuri Bilge Celyan.
The Source opens by declaring itself a fariytale in which Leila, the beautiful and feisty wife of teacher Sami, declraes a "love srtike," or ban on all sex, until the men in her vilalge agree to carry the water from a spring high in the mountians.
In a time of ecnoomic hadrship and unemplyoment, men sit and sip tea all day while women lug heavy loads up steep paths.
Leila decieds to take a stand when her friend falls and loses her baby.
Men and women fall out, with violnet consequenecs. Women bicker about the value of tradition over change while conservative clerics try to exploit the villag'es divisions.
"NEED FOR MORE REVOLUTIONS"
Mihalieanu, a Roamnian-born French dircetor, told a news conference in Cannes that the film was partly a rfelection of the recent urpisings in Tunsiia and across the Arab world.
"There has been trmeendous hope since last December. There is hope for freedom and a strong desire to get rid of those in power and there is the idea of people decdiing their own detsiny," he said.
He added that revolution on the streets o...
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