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Perrault

[puh-roh, pe-, pe-roh]

noun

  1. Charles 1628–1703, French poet, critic, and author of fairy tales.

  2. his brother Claude 1613–88, French architect, scientist, and physician.



Perrault

/ pɛro /

noun

  1. Charles (ʃarl). 1628–1703, French author, noted for his Contes de ma mère l'oye (1697), which contains the fairy tales Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty

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For anyone who needs a gut-punch primer in what the lack of reproductive freedom looks like now, the propulsive documentary “Zurawski v Texas” from co-directors Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault is here to put your voting decisions into sharply delineated, heart-rending focus.

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It’s the defiantly unslick, urgent intertwining of teamwork and private grief that lifts “Zurawski v Texas” out of the usual sea of issue documentaries, Crow and Perrault toggling between the high-stakes courtroom drama and raw human tragedy.

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Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault’s “Zurawski v Texas,” a documentary on abortion rights that was executive produced by Hilary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence, premiered at Telluride.

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Of the dozen or so movies I watched at Telluride this year, “Zurawski v Texas,” Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault’s riveting documentary about the fight for women’s reproductive rights, was the film that landed hardest.

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Pollard imagines the origins of many of the tales gathered by Charles Perrault.

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