Perrault

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.

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.

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.

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.

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