Justine Triet, director of ‘Anatomy of a Fall,’ became the third woman to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, beating 20 other films competing for the top prize.
France’s Triet called it “amazing” that she was only the third woman to direct a winning film and said the decision was encouraging for the future.
“We are at the beginning of profound changes in this regard,” he said after receiving the award.
Triet used his award speech to criticize the way the protest against pension reforms in France “has been shockingly denied and repressed” and said more room needs to be given to young filmmakers to make mistakes and start over from the beginning.
Triet, who had already been nominated for the film “Sibyl” in 2019, won the award this time in competition with veteran directors such as Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ken Loach and Wim Wenders, all with at least one Palme d’Or. .
She joins New Zealander Jane Campion and Frenchwoman Julia Ducournau as the third woman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes, which this year included a record seven female directors nominated.
Jane Fonda, who presented the award, said that one day the women who win this kind of award will be normal, not historical.
“We still have a long way to go. But even so, we need to celebrate change when it happens,” said the activist and film icon.
The Grand Prix, the second most important recognition after the Palme d’Or, went to “The Zone of Interest”, by British director Jonathan Glazer, which tells the story of a family living near Auschwitz.
German actress Sandra Hueller starred in the two winning films. In “Anatomie d’une chute”, or “Anatomy of a fall”, in the English title, she plays a writer who is the main suspect in her husband’s death, while in “Zone of Interest” she is the commander’s wife. the Auschwitz extermination camp.
However, the Best Actress award went to Merve Dizdar, who plays a teacher in an isolated village in Turkey in Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s ‘About Dry Grasses’.
The award for best actor went to the famous Japanese Koji Yakusho, who in Tokyo plays a toilet cleaner who is content to read books and listen to music in “Perfect Days”, by German director Wim Wenders.
“Kuolleet lehdet”, or “Fallen Leaves”, by Finnish Aki Kaurismaki, which returned to competition after more than a decade, won the jury prize.
French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung took home the Best Director award for ‘The Pot-au-Feu’, a French food-focused film starring Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel as a married couple.
Source: Terra
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