Justine Triet makes the Minister of Culture jump

2023-05-28 10:19:00

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Palme d’or 76^e Cannes Film Festival with “Anatomy of a Fall”, the director “stunned” Rima Abdul Malak by crushing the government on stage.

Par Philippe Guedj

Published on 05/28/2023 at 10:19 a.m.

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Et of three! After The Piano Lesson, by Jane Campion, in 1993, and Titanium, by Julia Ducournau, in 2021, the Cannes Film Festival crowns for the third time in its history a filmmaker (and for the second time a French director) with Anatomy of a fall, de Justine Triet.

Acclaimed by part of the critics, this account, however very classic of the trial of a widow accused of having murdered her husband, seduced the jury chaired by Ruben Östlund, director focused on works and forms a priori more subversive. On stage for her palme d’or awarded by Jane Fonda, Justine Triet, surrounded by her team, could have been satisfied with her beautiful emotion: in the middle of a speech, she nevertheless chose to push the political button with a fall to the all-too-familiar anatomy c…

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