Palme d’Or this year at the Cannes Film Festival, Anatomy of a fall by Justine Triet has exceeded one million admissions one month after its theatrical release, its distributor Jean Labadie (Le Pacte) and its producer Marie-Ange Luciani announced on Saturday September 23.
Anatomy of a fall far exceeds the last French Palme d’Or, Titanium (306,293 entries in 2021) and ahead Dheepan, by Jacques Audiard, in 2015 (663,000 entries). He is on par with The Life of Adele by Abdellatif Kechiche (1.036 million admissions in 2013), and could hope to catch up Between the walls by Laurent Cantet (1.6 million in 2008), other hexagonal Palmes d’Or from the 2000s.
Anatomy of a fallwhich meticulously dissects the balance of power and domination within a couple of artists, will however not be presented by France at the Oscars for best foreign film, as its promoters hoped.
“What idiots they are”
The commission of professionals which decides preferred Thursday 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 they are”wrote Marie-Ange Luciani on Instagram after this decision, when Jean Labadie judged this decision “inexcusable” on X (formerly Twitter). The president of the Union of Cinema Producers, Marc Missonnier, said he “a little stunned” by those who made a political interpretation of the choice for the Oscars, Justine Triet having sharply criticized the government, which she accused of wanting ” to break “ cultural exception by receiving its Palme.
“They are undeniable professionals” who chose, he said, recalling that the public authorities, via the CNC in 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 X.