2023-05-30 05:41:13
Director Justine Triet made Cannes Film Festival history on Saturday night by winning the Palme d’or for his film “Anatomy of a fall” and thus becoming the third woman to have won this award. But she also marked the event by launching an attack on French government policy on culture and pensions during a committed speech on stage.
She denounced how the executive ‘shockingly denied’ the protest against pension reform. “This pattern of dominating power, increasingly uninhibited, is breaking out in several areas,” she added, believing that the power also sought to “break the cultural exception without which I would not be here today” .
Asked about his remarks this Sunday, Justine Triet recognized on franceinfo a “slightly provocative” speech and recalls that she was speaking on her behalf, but reaffirms her opinion.
The fear of a “spirit of profitability”
The director explains that she really fears in the future a stronger “spirit of profitability” of cinema in the allocation of public aid, which could harm independent cinema, while “people around the world envy us this non-profitability of films . It is something very precious”.
“I have a place in this system and I cannot arrive here, having the floor, without also thinking for others, those who arrive behind”, she declares, “me, I manage to climb my movies. I think of this generation that is coming. It is very delicate”.
She also explains about BFM TV having been lucky enough to be able to do “almost everything” that she wanted for her film, and to be “the product of this cultural exception, my journey is made up of that. “I couldn’t not talk about it.”
But after a “very special year in France, I could not not talk about the situation”. For the director, it was “important” to launch a speech on these subjects on Saturday evening, “Cannes has always been the place where we could express ourselves very freely on this and I found it important to have this word.” .
His speech on Saturday caused a lot of reaction from the political class. The Minister of Culture said she was “stunned” with this declaration, declaring that “this film could not have seen the light of day without our French film financing model. »
On BFM TV this Sunday, Rima Abdul Malak reiterated her disagreement with Justine Triet, pointing to an “extreme left ideological background” in her speech and highlighting the aid granted to the cinema by the government. The minister points to a speech that she considers “ungrateful and unfair”.
On the left side of the political class, the director’s speech was rather applauded.
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