Justine Triet wins the Palme d’Or for “Anatomy of a fall”

2023-05-27 21:05:00

The director, the third woman to be awarded the Palme d’Or, took advantage of the stage to speak about the pension reform.

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Justine Triet receives the Palme d’or for her film Anatomy of a fall.
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Published on 27/05/2023 at 21:05

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LFrench director Justine Triet received the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday May 27 for her film Anatomy of a fall. She thus became the third crowned director in the history of the Festival. At 44, the filmmaker succeeds Jane Campion (The Piano Lesson1993) and Julia Ducournau (Titanium, 2021). On stage, she had a few words about pension reform, denouncing a social movement “Shockingly denied”.

“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 [elle] won’t be[t] not here today”. Justine Triet reaches the top of the cinema after four films, including Sibylalready selected at Cannes, and as many portraits of women.READ ALSOCinema: the juicy contracts signed at the Cannes Film Festival

The Grand Prize for Jonathan Glazer

This new coronation of a young French director also testifies to the success of French productions in international festivals, with the Golden Lion awarded to Audrey Diwan in 2021 in Venice for The Event and the Golden Bear in February to Nicolas Philibert for On the Adamant. The jury, chaired by Ruben Östlund and where Julia Ducournau also sat, chose a film which tells the trial of a widow (Sandra Hüller) accused at the assizes of having killed her husband. The opportunity to dissect the power dynamics within an affluent artistic couple and to expose the social prejudices that independent women face.

The jury also sent a contemporary message about the appalling banality of evil, giving the Grand Prize to Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest, on the daily life of the Nazi commander of Auschwitz, a radical work. The prize for directing went to Tran Anh Hùng for The Passion of Dodin Bouffanta period film on French gastronomy with Benoît Magimel, and that of the jury to Aki Kaurismäki for Dead leaves.

The interpretation awards for Merve Dizdar and Koji Yakusho

Turkish actress Merve Dizdar dedicated her performance award in Dried herbs by Nuri Bilge Ceylan “to all the women who lead a struggle to overcome the difficulties existing in this world”. The Best Actor Award went to Koji Yakusho for his role as a public restroom cleaner in Tokyo in Perfect Daysa dreamlike film by Wim Wenders.

Before awarding the screenplay prize to Sakamoto Yuji for Kore-eda’s “Monster”, American actor John C. Reilly fell silent on stage in tribute “to all those who write and give birth to great films”, in the midst of writers’ strike in Hollywood. The Swedish Swedish Östlund jury had to decide between 21 filmmakers, including 7 female directors. This list puts an end to the 76^e edition, chaired for the first time by Iris Knobloch, former Warner.

It was marked by controversy over the comeback of Johnny Depp, after his defamation trials on accusations of domestic violence, by a strong presence of cinema from the African continent, and young female directors. One of them, Molly Manning Walker, received the Un Certain Regard prize for How To Have Sexand two others shared the Golden Eye for Best Documentary, Kadib Abyad (The mother of all lies) and Kaouther Ben Hania (Olfa’s Daughterson the radicalization of Tunisian teenage girls).

READ ALSOCannes Film Festival 2023: our favorites and our clawsThe edition was also marked by a new demonstration of the honeymoon between Cannes and Hollywood: in 12 days, the red carpet will have welcomed Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro (for “Killers of the Flower Moon”), or even Harrison Ford, who came to say goodbye to “Indiana Jones”.

As for the closing film, the festival revives the tradition of programming the latest creation from Pixar studios, bought by Disney: the animated film Elementarywhich will be released in June, had its world premiere after the ceremony.

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