With the Palme d’Or for Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet is the third director to win the prestigious award, following Jane Campion in 1993 and Julia Ducournau in 2021.
Fade to Black for the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. French director Justine Triet received the Palme d’Or for her film Anatomy of a fall from the hands of American actress Jane Fonda, Saturday May 27, during the closing ceremony. The jury consisted of eight figures from the seventh art (Maryam Touzani, Rungano Nyoni, Julia Ducournau, Paul Dano, Denis Ménochet, Brie Larson, Atiq Rahimi and Damian Szifron) and chaired by Swedish director Ruben Östlund also honored the French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung with the award for best director for his film The passion of Dodin Bouffant. The two-week week will conclude with the screening of the latest film from Pixar studios out of competition. Elementary school, by Peter Sohn, Franceinfo summarizes what to remember at this closing ceremony.
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“Anatomy of a fall”, tenth Palme d’Or for France
It is the French Justine Triet Anatomy of a fall who won the Palme d’Or. The “great film process”, tells the story of Sandra, played by the German Sandra, according to the Franceinfo review Huller, accused of murdering her husband. The 44-year-old filmmaker is the third woman after Jane Campion to hold the prestigious trophy in her hands.The piano lesson1993) and Julia Ducournau (titanium2021). Anatomy of a fall is also the tenth sacred French film about the Croisette since 1946.
The director, who initially thought of this project as a series, shot her feature film “the most intimate”, according to her. Moved and surprised, the one who thought she would get nothing in Cannes ended her acceptance speech with a political diatribe. “This year has been marked by a historic, extremely powerful and unanimous challenge to pension reform. This challenge was appallingly denied and suppressed.”she said and denounced “an increasingly unrestrained ruling power”. She also defended the cultural exception of France. “Without whom [elle] will not be[t] not here”and who they think is in danger because “the commercialization of culture that defends the neoliberal government”.
“The Zone of Interest” Grand Prize Winner
The main prize went to the British filmmaker Jonathan Glazer for his film The Zone of Interest WHO tells the story of Rudolf Höss, a commandant of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, and his family, who lived very close to this place of extermination. The award was presented by the producers Roger Corman and Quentin Tarantino, long round of applause. The Zone of Interest was the most radical film in the competition: leaving the death camp from the off, it denounces people’s ability to go on with their lives at ease while at the same time touching horror.
New award for Aki Kaurismäki with the Jury Prize for “Les Feuilles mortes”
The Jury Prize went to Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki for his film dead leaves. Since the filmmaker did not attend the ceremony, he had already received the Grand Prix The man with no past in 2002. His film tells the love story between Ansa (Alma Pöysti), a cashier, and Holappa (Jussi Vatanen), a metallurgist, meet one night in Helsinki and are both looking for love. She gives him her phone number but he loses it not knowing anything about her but in love.
Directing award for the French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung
He is the Franco-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung who received the award for best director The passion of Dodin Bouffant. The feature film that adapts the novel by Marcel Rouff The life and passion of Dodin-Bouffant (Editions du Serpent à plumes) deals with the French gastronomy of the 19th century with the French duo Benoît Magimel and Juliette Binoche. filmmakers had already tackled the kitchen the scent of green papaya, who won the Camera d’or in Cannes in 1993 and the youth prize at Un determined consideration.
“Monster”, Screenplay Award and Queer Palm
From the hands of American actor John C. Reilly, who produced a short silent film number to illustrate what a “Unscripted Movie”Sakomoto Yugi received the Best Screenplay award Monster, from the Japanese Hirokazu Kore-Eda. The feature film had already won the Queer Palme, an alternative award that honors films on LGBT and feminist issues. Again evoking family, the weight of institutions and the ambiguous bond of friendship between two young students, the filmmaker has depicted in images how he felt about his children. “As a father, I observe that there is a moment when the child exceeds what we envisioned for him. It eludes us and it’s not necessarily negative. This allows him to leave the nest and grow up.” he explained to franceinfo.
Koji Yakusho, Pmale performance price
Koji Yakusho, actor in Wim Wenders’ film, won the award for best actor. perfect days. “I would especially like to thank Wim Wenders and his co-author (…). You created a great character.”he said movingly on stage. In this film from the director of Paris, Texas (The Palme d’Or 1984) he plays Hirayama, a quiet and lonely public toilet worker in Tokyo who gradually opens up to others.
Merve Dizdar, P.Female Achievement Award
Turkish actress Merve Dizdar received the award for her role in the film Best Actress Dried herbsde Nuri Bilge Ceylan. “I would like to dedicate this award to all women who are struggling to overcome the difficulties of being in this world and to keep hope alive.”said the actress, who plays a woman who falls in love with a teacher in a remote province of Turkey. She is the first Turkish actress to be crowned.
Awarded the Golden Camera
Anaïs Demoustier relaxed the atmosphere “make a spike lee” and by stammering when announcing the winner of the Caméra d’or – and not the Palme d’or as she first explained – which is awarded to the first feature films to be screened in the fortnight. The price went down The golden butterfly treeby Vietnamese director Pham Thien An, 34, who made the film strong impression when projecting.
Golden Palm for short films
The Golden Palm for short films was awarded 27 by Flora Ana Buda. The Hungarian director had a word for the Clermont-Ferrand short film festival, whose subsidies were cut next year following a vote by the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region chaired by Republican Laurent Wauquiez. A special mention also received Few de Gunnur Martinsdottir Schlueter
The full list of the official selection
Golden Palm: Anatomy of a fallde Justine Triet
Grand Prize: The Zone of Interestthe Jonathan Glazer
Jury Prize: dead leavesd’Aki Kaurismaki
Staging Price: Tran Anh Hung (The Passion of Dodin Bouffant
Script Price: Sakomoto YugiMonster)
Best Actor Award: Koji Yakusho (perfect days)
Best Actress Award: Merve Dizdar (Dried herbs)
Golden Camera: The golden butterfly treePham Thien An
Golden Palm for short films: 27, by Flora Ana Buda, special mention for Few de Gunnur Martinsdottir Schlueter
