French classroom film wins top prize in Cannes (Reuters)
Published 5/26/2008 at Yahoo! News: Movie News
Reuters - "Entre les murs" (The Class), a
film set in a tough Parisian high school, won the Palme d'Or
for best picture at the Cannes festival on Sunday.
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