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.
Audrey Diwan’s film, though set in the France of the nineteen-sixties, stares urgently at a possible future in which pregnant women might again be denied access to safe termination.
A number of new movies will be released this week, including the following films opening in theaters or debuting via video on demand on various streaming platforms: