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Justin Trier, winner of the 2023 Palme d’Or, calls for a “world that considers it possible to make mistakes and start over.”

Justin Triet, Palme d’Or 2023, with applause from Jane Fonda. (Cannes, May 27, 2023) VALERIE HACHE / AFP

The French director was crowned for his film at the 76th Cannes Film Festival Anatomy of a FallMay 27. And gave a lively speech about a world whose changes must be followed.

“Change should be celebrated when it happens. seven directors are competing this year.” with these few words she said before handing over the gold medal, Jane Fonda was not thinking very well. A few minutes later, Justin Triet presented the top prize at the 76th Cannes Film Festival for his film. Anatomy of a Fallmaking him the second French director to win after Julia Ducournot Titanium in 2021.

Cannes 2023, the last step

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The mistress of her story

Anatomy of a Fall tells the story of writer Sandra (Sandra Hueller, who also plays Area of ​​interest Grand prize winner Jonathan Glazer, who is accused of murdering her husband. During her trial, it is the entire story of her relationships, unspoken words, secrets and grievances that she must reveal to the jury, the lawyers and the hearing where her son, a visually impaired teenager, is found. Backed into a corner, Sandra finds herself deprived of a story and the perspective she has so far possessed in her life, as in her novels. And she is subject to different views that see her as a selfish woman or fiercely independent.

May 27 stair climb

punchline speech

Justin Trier had already presented films on the Croisette. Victoria (with Virginie Efira and Vincent Lacoste) 2016 Sibyl (still with Efira, but also with Adele Exarchopoulos), in competition in 2019. On stage, he wanted to boost his producers and actors, including Sandra Hüler, Milo Machado Graner and Antoine Reynaerts. He first thanked his co-screenwriter and companion Arthur Harary, also a filmmaker (black diamond Onoda, 10,000 Nights in the Jungle), “who allowed himself to be kidnapped for three years”. “Before launching into a spirited speech about a powerful, united protest against the pension reforms that rocked the country this year.”

Justin Trier decried the “dominant, increasingly unfettered pattern of power” that erupts “in all spheres of society, and cinema is no exception,” believing that “the commodification of culture violates the cultural exception without which (it) would not exist.” here today.” Before recalling this place he himself occupied a few years ago, “in a world that considered it possible to make mistakes and start over.” Proof, as Jane Fonda said, that times have indeed changed, but sometimes in contradictory directions. Justin Triet’s victory is perhaps a hope in this respect.

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Source: Le Figaro

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