the Palme d’Or speech creates controversy, the Minister of Culture “flabbergasted”!

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A price that makes people talk… but not for artistic reasons! It was Justine Triet who won the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival with the film Anatomy of a fall, this Saturday, May 27, 2023. In her feature film, the French director paints a remarkable portrait of a woman accused of having killed her husband in an atmosphere that is both toxic and poignant. A victory also for the women of this very masculine environment since she is only the third director to receive the prestigious prize, after the New Zealander Jane Campion in 1993 for The piano lessonand the Frenchwoman Julia Ducournau, rewarded in 2021 with Titanium.

“Socially, that’s where it’s most shocking…”
However, past the usual thanks, Justine Triet continued with a political speech, paying homage to theTo “historical disputeextremely powerful, unanimous, reformretirements”, which according to her “been denied, repressed in shocking ways and this pattern of increasingly uninhibited dominating power breaks out in several areas“, she said and added: “Obviously, socially, that’s where it’s most shocking, but we can also see it in several other spheres of society and cinema is no exception. The commodification of culture that the neoliberal government defends is in the process of break the French cultural exceptionthis same cultural exception without which I will not be here in front of you”, she firmly advanced to the applause of the public present in the Palais des Festivals.
And the least we can say is that his speech did not go over to Rima Abdul Malak at all! The Minister of Culture immediately reacted on Twitter, expressing her dismay at the words of the director: “Stunned by his unfair speech”she writes, recalling that the French model of cinema allows a “unique diversity in the world”. A point of view shared by Roland Lescure, minister delegate in charge of industry. “anatomy of ingratitude of a profession that we help so much… and of an art that we loveso much !”, he also wrote on Twitter. While the left salutes the courageous speech of the director, Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the lead, who tweets: “Cannes returns to itstradition. It is the resistant left that created this festival.”

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