Elisabeth Borne gives advice to Justine Triet, Palme d’or 2023

2023-10-08 15:32:00

By Figaro with AFP

Published 2 hours ago, Updated 2 hours ago

Prime Minister Élizabeth Borne declared: “Justine Triet must think about her relationship with reality.” AFP/Patricia de Melo Moreira

The Prime Minister thinks that the director of the film Anatomy of a Fall, awarded at Cannes, “must think about her relationship with reality”.

Five months have passed since the controversial speech of the filmmaker, recipient of the highest award awarded each year on the Croisette, but the pill, still indigestible, seems not to pass. The Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, estimated on Sunday October 8 that Justine Triet, director of the film Anatomy of a fallshould “think about your relationship to reality», while the winner of the Palme d’Or had harshly attacked the government in May.

Indeed no one has forgotten, and obviously not the boss of the government, that during the awards ceremony in Cannes, Justine Triet had criticized the “commodification of culture that the neoliberal government defends”, which according to her is in the process “to break the French cultural exception, this same cultural exception without which (it) would not be here today».

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The filmmaker also mentioned “an extremely powerful and unanimous historic protest» in France against the pension reform that the executive had “shockingly denied».

«I’ll go see this film, obviously, which looks excellent», However affirmed Élisabeth Borne, interviewed on BFMTV. “I was told (that) it’s a film about the relationship with reality. Perhaps the director needs to think about her relationship with reality when she finds that creation is not sufficiently supported.», added with a little humor, the Prime Minister, nevertheless judging “quite shocking» Justine Triet’s speech «in a country where there is so much support for creation».

Then the head of government added to conclude: “I think that many actors in the cultural sector remember the massive support that we were able to provide during the Covid crisis».
Palme d’Or in Cannes, Anatomy of a fallwhich intends to dissect the balance of power within a couple of artists, exceeded one million admissions in theaters in September, a month after its release.