2023-05-27 22:10:58
A speech that will make people talk. On stage, just after won the Palme d’Or for her film “Anatomy of a fall”, the French director Justine Triet attacked the government during her speech. She criticizes him in particular for having “shockingly denied” the movement against pension reform.
“This protest has been shockingly denied and repressed”
“The country has been traversed by an extremely powerful and unanimous historical protest of pension reform,” she said. “This challenge has been denied and shockingly suppressed, and this pattern of increasingly uninhibited dominating power breaks out in several areas. Socially, that’s where it’s most shocking, but you can also see that in all the other spheres of society, and cinema is no exception. »
Justine Triet also denounced the “commodification of culture that the neoliberal government defends” and which is in the process of “breaking the French cultural exception”.
The Minister of Culture “flabbergasted”
Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak reacted to the director’s speech on her Twitter account. “Happy to see the Palme d’or awarded to Justine Triet, the 10th for France! “, she begins first. Then to add: “But flabbergasted by his speech so unfair. This film could not have seen the light of day without our French film funding model, which allows for a diversity that is unique in the world. Let’s not forget that. »
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