Medical Emergency Halts Cannes Screening of Almodóvar's Bitter Christmas

At Cannes, a press screening of Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas was interrupted mid-way due to a medical emergency in the Bazin Theatre, prompting an evacuation; the attendee was conscious and taken to hospital, and the screening resumed from the film’s start, after the world premiere ovation Almodóvar received in the Grand Théâtre Lumière.