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Had it arrived a year ago, French director Audrey Diwan's plausible horror film "Happening" about a young unmarried woman in 1963 France desperate to obtain an illegal and dangerous abortion would have been received as a serious work of art, a period piece reminding us of the dangers of romanticizing the past.
Well, looky here. Just a week after that Supreme Court opinion leaked signaling the end of constitutional rights to abortion in America, here comes Happening, a French film about a girl trying to have an abortion, set in an era when that was a crime carrying serious prison time. The movie’s release wasn’t timed to