2023-05-27 21:33:45
The 44-year-old French filmmaker succeeds Jane Campion (The piano lesson1993) and Julia Ducournau (Titanium2021), confirming the slow movement towards equality in a historically male-dominated film industry.
The Festival had opened twelve days ago under the threat of a power cut from the union CGT but it was ultimately through the winner that the social movement in France was invited to Cannes. On receiving her award from Jane Fonda, the filmmaker strongly denounced the way the French government had shockingly denied
the protest once morest the pension reform and sought to break the cultural exception without which [elle] wouldn’t be here today
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« This pattern of dominating power, increasingly uninhibited, breaks out in several areas. »
Immediate response from the French Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak. She said to herself flabbergasted by his speech so unjust
: This film might not have seen the light of day without our French film financing model, which allows for a diversity that is unique in the world. Let’s not forget it
she wrote on social media.
From an artistic point of view, this new coronation of a young French director testifies to the success of French productions in 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 (in French cinemas on August 23) 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 other big winners
The Grand Prize, the second most important of the festival, was awarded to Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interestregarding the daily life of the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz, a contemporary message regarding the appalling banality of evil
The prize for directing went to Tran Anh Hùng for The passion of Dodin Bouffanta period film on French gastronomy with Benoît Magimel, and that of the jury to Aki Kaurismäki for Dead leaves.
Turkish actress Merve Dizdar dedicated her performance award in dry herbs by Nuri Bilge Ceylan to all the women who lead a struggle to overcome the difficulties existing in this world
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The Best Actor Award went to Japanese actor Koji Yakusho for his role as a public restroom cleaner in Tokyo in Perfect Daysa dreamlike film by Wim Wenders.
This list puts an end to the 76e edition, chaired for the first time by Iris Knobloch, former Warner.
It was marked by controversy over the return of Johnny Depp, following his defamation trials on accusations of domestic violence, by a strong presence of cinema from the African continent and female directors, beyond Justine Triet.
One of them, Molly Manning Walker, received the Un Certain Regard prize for How To Have Sexand two others share the Golden Eye for Best Documentary: Kadib Abyad, for The mother of all liesand Kaouther Ben Hania, for Olfa’s daughterson the radicalization of Tunisian teenage girls.
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 even Harrison Ford, who came to say goodbye to Indiana Jones. Quentin Tarantino and Roger Corman, 97, one of the deans of American cinema, were also on stage on Saturday evening.
As for the closing feature film, the festival revives the tradition of programming the latest creation from Pixar studios, bought by Disney: the animated film Elementarywhich will be released in June, had its world premiere following the ceremony.
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