Justine Triet, the junk resistant of the Cannes Film Festival

2023-05-29 09:46:00

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CHRONIC. Rewarded with the Palme d’Or, the director plays the junk resistant on the red carpet, makes divisive remarks and spoils the party.

Par Sophie Coignard

Published on 05/29/2023 at 09:46

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IYou had to see her laboriously read her text, her Palme d’Or in front of her, to castigate the pension reform (what relationship with cinema?) and the government’s cultural policy. Just crowned for his film Anatomy of a fallthe director Justine Triet played a role many times interpreted by others, that of the sequined revolutionary: “The commodification of culture that the neoliberal government defends is in the process of breaking the French cultural exception”, a-t- she declared, striking a pose, as if bravely putting herself in danger even when she was sure of the mechanical applause of the room.

In a burst of lucidity, she added all the same: “This same cultural exception without which I would not be there in front…

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