France’s Justine Triet, Cannes Palme d’Or with hard claws against Macron

a filmmaker Justine Triet has become the second French director to win the Palme d’Orafter the very recent triumph of Julia Ducournau for Titan 2021 Triet wins this triumph thanks to an extraordinary film, anatomy of the fall, which develops the film’s experimental plot, but innovates its structure by reducing the theatricality and offering a drama that relies heavily on the literary influence of autofiction. The protagonist of the film, a terrifying German actress Sandra Hüller, is a successful writer who was accused of dumping her husband in the house they shared. And based on that what he actually focuses on anatomy of the fall It is not in the harshness of surprising shocks, so typical of the genre, but in the intimacy or struggles of that couple: in their relationship eaten away by professional jealousy and toxicity. And that is a great merit of the film Three the tension it creates ambiguous treatment, always on the line of guilt as a value that is not always objective.

Proceeding from this recognition of never-estimated merits anatomy of the fallthe feeling that leaves you golden palm it is despair. Because far beyond that, the extraordinary films of the Italians Nanni Moreti, Alicia Rohrwacher and Marco Bellocchio reached other artistic heights, the three unfortunately buried by the ignorance of guys like the president of the jury, the Swede Ruben Östlundwho, with his films and his statements, always gave clear proof of his disdain for art that dares to challenge power or wrestle with the ugly state of affairs and not give up that noble and beautiful endeavor.

And also moving well above Triet’s film was Aki Kaurismaki’s film, dead leaves, images filled with the poetics of the subversive escape of the disinherited. Kaurismaki was uploaded to the list of winners with Jury award which is like fourth place in the ranking. And that is that there are—in the past—offensive statements by Östlund, a terrible filmmaker, a gallows judge and a very bad person, according to Kaurismaki, disqualifying his creative universe as naive.

he is not guilty Justine Triet his cardinal injustices golden palm because it has already been said that anatomy of the fall has absolutely negligible achievements. And it is convenient to attribute her determination to the French director a speech condemning Macron’s policies with his pension reform and cultural policies that turn everything into a commodity and who starred in his award acceptance speech.

Silver palmares, Jury grand prizeit is very much in line with the distinguished merits field of interesta film with which Jonathan Glazer is able to capture as dramatic fiction — perhaps for the first time — the concept of the banality of evil, based on the character of Rudolf Höss, the person in charge of the Auschwitz camp, and his family life, the forerunner of the crematorium furnaces and Zyclon-B, able to live on chimney ashes stock who stains women’s underwear. And Sandra Hüller deserves a special mention, who embodies Höss’s wife and who — with her presence in Glazer’s film and Justine Triet’s film — stands out as the second big winner of this festival.