Awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes for Anatomy of a fallFrench director Justine Triet took advantage of the platform to launch an attack on the French government’s policy on culture and pensions.
The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival opened twelve days ago under the threat of a power cut from the CGT. It is finally by the director rewarded with the Palme d’Or that the social movement in France was invited to the Croisette.
After receiving the prize from the hands of Jane Fonda, thanking her teams and the members of the jury, Justine Triet, third woman in sacred history at Cannes, denounced the ” commodification of culture that the neoliberal government defends “. Crowned for her Anatomy of a fallthe filmmaker also accused the executive “ to break the French cultural exception », the complex system of financing in France, « without which (she) would not be here today “.
She also returned to the months of mobilization in France against the very unpopular pension reform which raised the retirement age from 62 to 64 and which was adopted without a vote in the National Assembly. “ The country has been criss-crossed by an extremely powerful and unanimous historical pension reform protest “, she said, assuring that this movement had been “ shockingly denied “, in accordance with a ” dominant power pattern, increasingly uninhibited “.
French Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak immediately replied. She said to herself ” flabbergasted by his speech so unjust “: ” This film could 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 networks.
Happy to see the Palme d’or awarded to Justine Triet, the 10th for France! But flabbergasted by his speech so unjust. This film could not have seen the light of day without our French film funding model, which allows for a diversity that is unique in the world. Let’s not forget that.
—Rima Abdul Malak (@RimaAbdulMalak) May 27, 2023
(With AFP)