The Premiere of Michael Moore's Sicko in Cannes

[Arian Maverick]

From what I've read in the latest blog entry Mike, the Giant Killer (http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/2007/05/19/mike-the-giant-killer/#more-454) in Political Waves (http://polwaves.planetwaves.net/), Michael Moore's newest documentary Sicko is to premiere tonight at the Cannes Film Festival. I will research to find the time the premiere began and perhaps even the time the movie was first filmed, because I believe it will have a significant impact.

Please post if you know any information.

Arian Maverick

[Kaiousei no Senshi]

What's it about? O.o Sicko. Sounds...sick?

-祈祷師 の 星

[Arian Maverick]

Here's an article titled Moore film attacks U.S. health care (http://www.tvguide.com/news-views/Entertainment-News/Article/Default.aspx?idx=1010451) from TV Guide (http://www.tvguide.com/)'s Entertainment News (http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Entertainment-News/default.aspx):

Moore film attacks U.S. health care
Sat May 19, 8:24 AM ET

By Mike Collett-White

CANNES, France (Reuters) - Director Michael Moore says the U.S. health care system is driven by greed in his new documentary "SiCKO," and asks of Americans in general, "Where is our soul?"

He also said he could go to jail for taking a group of volunteers suffering ill health after helping in the September 11, 2001 rescue efforts on an unauthorized trip to Cuba, where they received exemplary treatment at virtually no cost.

The controversial film maker is back in Cannes, where he won the film festival's highest honor in 2004 with his anti-Bush polemic "Fahrenheit 9/11."

In "SiCKO" he turns his attention to health, asking why 50 million Americans, 9 million of them children, live without cover, while those that are insured are often driven to poverty by spiraling costs or wrongly refused treatment at all.

But the movie, which has taken Cannes by storm, goes further by portraying a country where the government is more interested in personal profit and protecting big business than caring for its citizens, many of whom cannot afford health insurance.....

(Please visit our Cannes site, including a link to our blogs, on http://uk.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/cannesFestival) (http://uk.reuters.com/news/globalcoverage/cannesFestival))

Arian Maverick


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