2023-05-27 21:55:00
Lhe Cannes Film Festival awarded its Palme d’or on Saturday to Frenchwoman Justine Triet for “Anatomy of a Fall”, rewarding a director for only the third time in its history.
The 44-year-old filmmaker succeeds Jane Campion (“The piano lesson”, 1993) and Julia Ducournau (“Titane”, 2021), confirming the slow movement towards equality in a cinema industry historically dominated by men.
Upon receiving her award, the filmmaker strongly denounced the way the French government has “shockingly denied” the movement 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 (it) would not be here today. today”.
Justine Triet reaches the top of the cinema after four films, including “Sibyl”, already selected at Cannes and as many portraits of women.
French cinema in the spotlight
This new coronation of a young French director also testifies to the success of French productions at 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 on 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 “La passion de Dodin Bouffant”, a period film on French gastronomy with Benoît Magimel, and that of the jury to Aki Kaurismäki for “Les Feuilles Mortes”.
Turkish actress Merve Dizdar dedicated her performance award in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Dried Herbs” to “all the women who struggle to overcome the difficulties that exist in this world”.
The best actor award went to Koji Yakusho for his role as a Tokyo public restroom cleaner in Wim Wenders’ dreamlike film “Perfect Days.”
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 middle 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 76th edition, chaired for the first time by Iris Knobloch, former Warner.
It was marked by controversy over Johnny Depp’s comeback, 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 Sex”, and two others share the Golden Eye for best documentary, Kadib Abyad “The mother of all lies ” and Kaouther Ben Hania (“The girls of Olfa”, on the radicalization of Tunisian teenagers).
The 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 again 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, acquired by Disney: the animated film “Elementary”, which will be released in June, was presented in world premiere after the ceremony. .
27/05/2023 21:53:51 – Cannes (AFP) – © 2023 AFP
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