{"id":692,"date":"2007-05-19T17:27:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T17:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/19\/sicko-screens-at-cannes\/"},"modified":"2007-05-19T17:28:48","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T17:28:48","slug":"sicko-screens-at-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/05\/19\/sicko-screens-at-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sicko screens at Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sicko<\/strong><\/a> screened earlier today at the Cannes film festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Michael<\/a><\/p>\n

The new documentary by Michael Moore<\/a> explores the US health care system and screens at the festival 3 years after he won the Palme D’or<\/a> with Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mike Collett-White of Reuters reports from Cannes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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?”<\/p>\n

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 unauthorised trip to Cuba, where they received exemplary treatment at virtually no cost.<\/p>\n

The controversial film maker is back in Cannes, where he won the film festival’s highest honour in 2004 with his anti-Bush polemic “Fahrenheit 9\/11”.<\/p>\n

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 spiralling costs or wrongly refused treatment at all.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stephen Robb of BBC News quotes Moore about his Cuba trip<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The point was not to go to Cuba, it was to go to American soil, to Guantanamo Bay, to take the 9\/11 rescue workers there to receive the same healthcare that they are giving the al-Qaeda detainees. No film-maker should ever have to be talking about jail or fines or where he or she can travel.”<\/p>\n

Moore told a Cannes press conference: “I know a lot of you have written: ‘How dumb are they to give us all this publicity?’ But I am the one who is personally being investigated, and I am the one who is personally liable for potential fines or jail so I don’t take it lightly.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Slashfilm has a rundown of the early critical reaction<\/a> (which seems mostly positive) and also has a very interesting story about Moore (apparently) paying the medical bills<\/a> of one of his fiercest critics<\/a>. (Moore even left a voicemail for him<\/a>).<\/p>\n

> Sicko at the IMDb<\/a>
\n> BBC News on Sicko opening at Cannes<\/a>
\n> Moorewatch on Sicko<\/a>
\n> Slashfilm on the early reactions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sicko screened earlier today at the Cannes film festival. The new documentary by Michael Moore explores the US health care system and screens at the festival 3 years after he won the Palme D’or with Fahrenheit 9\/11. Mike Collett-White of Reuters reports from Cannes: Director Michael Moore says the U.S. health care system is driven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}