Even if everything has been said about the director Justine Triet, gone from the light of the cinema studios to the dark side of the crass ideology, difficult not to return to the controversial speech of the Palme d’or 2023. Talented, suddenly on. Stuffed with public money, too, like the entire industry of the 7th art. Justine Triet’s film, awarded at Cannes, received 900,000 euros from France Télévisions, half a million from the CNC (advance on receipts) without counting tax credits, regional aid or the producer support account. Of course, she has the right to hate neoliberal ideology. Still need to know what we are talking about. And don’t make a mistake by spouting nonsense in front of an international audience, under the pretext of playing Cosette on the Croisette.
Before speaking, she could have asked for advice from her neighbor Jane Fonda, who once fought against the war in Vietnam. And then, not forgetting her diploma on the desk, forcing the American actress to throw the parchment at her. No doubt she was thinking more of her political stunt than of her film, as it is true that today, if at 50 an artist has not vomited his hatred of the system (which feeds him) in front of the spotlight, it’s that he wasted his life. No doubt she was thinking of Jean-Luc Godard, who succeeded in interrupting the Cannes festival in 1968. “There is an embarrassment in relation to an explosive situation in all strata of society”, she explained. It’s true: there was a (big) embarrassment to observe the anatomy of a fall live. Too bad for French cinema.