This Saturday, May 27, the jury of the Cannes Film Festival awarded the Palme d’Or to Justine Triet for her film, “Anatomy of a fall”. The director gave an incendiary speech against the Government.
His speech has “stomache“ Culture Minister Rima Abdul-Malak. Justine Triet obtained, this evening of May 27, the Palme d’Or for her film Anatomy of‘a fall, which recounts the trial of a woman suspected of having murdered her husband. When receiving the trophy, the director gave a speech that castigated the pension reform implemented this year by the Government: “The country has been throughé by an extremely powerful and unanimous historical protest of the pension reform“she said. “This dispute was denied and reprimeshockingly, and this increasingly overbearing power patterncomplexe breaks out in several areas. Socially, it‘is there wherewhere vs‘is the most shocking, but we can also see this in all the other spheres of society, and cinemamy name‘don’t escape”did she say.
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The political sphere was quick to react, starting with the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul-Malak, who first expressed her joy at Justine Triet’s victory at the Cannes Film Festival, before adding that she was “stomached by his speech so unjust”. She added: “This movie‘could have been born without our modethe frenchfilm funding channel, which allows a unique diversity in the world. Don’t‘let’s not forget.” Similarly, the Minister Delegate for Industry, Roland Lescure, quipped: “Anatomy of the‘ingratitude of‘a profession that we help so much… and d‘an art that we love so much!” Finally, the mayor Les Républicains de Cannes also did not appreciate the speech, qualifying the director “dspoiled childyea and so conformist”. It remains to be seen what the President of the Republic thinks, who has not yet spoken on the statements of the young woman.
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Justine Triet persists and signs
Guest of the morning France info this Sunday, May 28, 2023, the filmmaker who won the Palme d’Or explained her speech, saying that it was obvious for her to express herself on these angry subjects: “I’m in a more privileged situation, but I can’t get here ignoring the world. Cannes has always been a reflection of that, it’s a place wherewhere people expressed themselves politically.” Although she admitted that her speech was “a bit provocative”, she maintained that the actions of the Government in terms of public aid to the cinema were carried out in a “spirit of profitability“. “This French cultural exceptionvsease that we must absolutely preserve and cherish. All the people around the world envy us this non-profitability of films”she concluded.