2023-09-23 14:19:41
The day after the announcement of its non-selection to represent France at the Oscars, Justine Triet’s film exceeded this symbolic figure, its distributor and producer rejoiced this Saturday, September 23.
One month to the day after its theatrical release, the film Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet exceeded one million admissions, the distributor and producer of this year’s Palme d’Or announced this Saturday, September 23.
The symbolic “million” mark was crossed Friday evening, declared distributor Jean Labadie (Le Pacte). “Bravo Justine Triet, Thank you to the spectators,” wrote producer Marie-Ange Luciani on Instagram.
Better than Titanium, on par with “La Vie d’Adèle”
Anatomy of a Fall far exceeds the last French Palme d’Or, Titanium (306,293 entries in 2021) and is ahead of Dheepan by Jacques Audiard in 2015 (663,000 entries).
It is on par with La Vie d’Adèle by Abdellatif Kechiche (1.036 million admissions in 2013), and could hope to catch up with Entre les Murs by Laurent Cantet (1.6 million in 2008), other French palms d’or of 2000s.
Anatomy of a Fall, which meticulously dissects the balance of power and domination within a couple of artists, will on the other hand not be presented by France at the Oscars for best foreign film, as its promoters hoped. .
The commission of professionals which decides on Thursday preferred the Passion of Dodin Bouffant by Tran Anh Hung, with Benoît Magimel and Juliette Binoche. This costume film about French culinary traditions is due out on November 8 in France.
A decision that supporters of Justine Triet’s film had difficulty swallowing: “What idiots are they”, wrote Marie-Ange Luciani on Instagram after this decision, when Jean Labadie judged this decision ” inexcusable” on Twitter (renamed X).
“The right formula”
The president of the Union of Cinema Producers (UPC) Marc Missonnier said he was “a little stunned” by those who made a political interpretation of the choice for the Oscars, Justine Triet having sharply criticized the government, accused of wanting to “break” the cultural exception, by receiving its Palme.
“These are indisputable professionals” who chose, he recalled, stressing that the public authorities, via the CNC within which they meet, did not have the right to vote.
“French cinema has long been looking for the right formula for choosing the film it sends to the Oscars. Let us instead formulate proposals for the future rather than falling into political anathema,” he added on Twitter.
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