How not to miss it? This Friday, June 30, Justine Triet was invited on the set of “C to You” on the occasion of the last show of the season of the daily France 5. When he came, Patrick Cohen wanted to talk about the controversy she was the subject of a few hours after receiving the Palme d’Or for his film “Anatomy”.
If the 44-year-old director thanked her collaborators at length on the stage of the Palais des Festivals on Saturday May 27, 2023, she also wanted to address other subjects, or even several: pension reform, police violence and the state of the French cinema.
“This year, the country has been traversed by a historic, extremely powerful, unanimous protest against pension reform. This protest has been shockingly denied and repressed, and this pattern of increasingly uninhibited dominating power is erupting in several areas”she launched to the applause of the room.
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Justine Triet sparks controversy with her speech at the Cannes Film Festival
As soon as her speech was over, Jane Fonda seemed annoyed and did not hesitate to throw the winner’s diploma behind her. Personalities, such as Elie Semoun, pointed to Justine Triet’s speech, while comedians did not hesitate to make fun of her. Several weeks after the event, the director assumes everything.
“I have no regrets! I fully assume my words”she assures from the outset in front of Patrick Cohen, who wanted to know his feelings, before acknowledging that he did not have “measured the extent that this was going to take”. “And I think I couldn’t measure it, because I didn’t know that there would be a tweet right after from the Minister of Culture, which was going to distort my words a little”she continued.
No regrets, just solidarity
Justine Triet says she just wanted to be “solidarity” of a movement that has “gathered a lot of people that year”. “And then I said, ‘Let’s protect this great place that is France! This place that loves cinema like no other country in the world’… I just said, ‘Let’s protect this place'”. “You didn’t just say ‘let’s protect him’, you said ‘he’s under threat'”then interrupted Patrick Cohen.
“Yes, it is threatened and I think I’m not the only one to say it. People around me have been talking about it for a few years”defended the guest of “C to You”. She assures me that it was “the least of it”in her eyes, not to think only of herself. “My speech does not come out of nowhere. I relayed a word that has existed for some time”she concluded.
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