The rumors that circulated in the afternoon were confirmed in the night. And at the Grand Théâtre Lumière Stroke anatomy (anatomy of a fall), by Justine Triet, won the Palme d’Or, it is the second time this has happened in the last three years.
Yes, like two years ago, in 2021, when the Festival recovered after the shortened version of 2020, a film directed by a director, also French, won. then it had been titanby Julia Ducournau, this year’s member of the Jury, together with Damiano Szifron. And if the palm a titana violent film, had aroused surprise, this time not.
The winning film centers on the trial of a woman after her husband falls to his death from a balcony. The last were her and her son, a boy with an optic nerve problem after an accident. The protagonist is Sandra Hüeller, the same as another who would be awarded, The area of interest.
Of the 21 films in competition, seven, ie a third, were made by women. And the director’s speech pointed decisively in that direction.
Along the way, the Jury left without prizes all the directors who had already won a Palme d’Or or two (Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti; and Wim Wenders, Nuri Bilge Ceylan and Hirokazu Kore-eda, since if the films of these The last three received awards, they went to their performers and the screenwriter).
Chiara Mastroianni was once again godmother of ceremonies, such as at the Inauguration on Tuesday 16 May. The Jury, chaired by director Ruben Östlund (the square AND The triangle of sadness), was composed by director Maryam Touzani, actor Denis Ménochet, writer-director Rungano Nyoni, actress-director Brie Larson, actor-director Paul Dano, writer-writer Atiq Rahimi, our compatriot Damián Szifron and director Julia Ducournau.
The prizes, in order
The actress Stacy Martin and the director Ildikó Enyedi, who presided over the Short Film and La Cinef Juries, awarded a Special Mention to distantfrom the Icelandic Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter, and the Palme d’Or a 27, by the Hungarian Flóra Ana Buda. Both shorts were directed by women.
Then the actress Anaïs Demoustier, who presided over the Jury of the Camera d’Or for the best debut of the Festival, the Directors’ Fortnight and the Critics’ Week, presented the Caméra d’or award to The tree of the papillons d’or, by the Vietnamese Thien An Pham, seen at the Directors’ Fortnight. Among its producers is an Argentinian, Gabriel Kaplan.
As for the feature film awards, unlike other previous editions, this year they were not assigned by the members of the Jury, but by different figures, as happened in 2022. This was announced by a member of the Jury, who stood up dais and announced it.
Then, actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi, last year’s winner of Best Female Performance for holy spiderand actor Song Kang-ho, 2022 winner for Best Male Performance, for Brokerthey handed out the crossed awards, as happens in the handing over of the Oscars.
And the best male performance went to the Japanese Koji Yakusho, for perfect days, as we anticipated. He is the absolute protagonist of the new film by Wim Wenders. the actor of let’s Dance and who took part in it Babelby Alejandro González Iñárritu composes a man who is dedicated to cleaning public toilets in the city of Tokyo.
The best actress went to the young Turkish Merve Dizdar, 36, for Kuru Otlar Ustune (On Dry Grass)by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. She plays a school teacher, who has lost part of her leg, and is more of the romantic interest of two other teachers. One could not believe the surprised face of the actress, but she had a speech written on a piece of paper …
Actor John C. Reilly, who in this edition was president of the Jury of the Un Certain Regard section, presented the Best Screenplay Award to the Japanese Sakamoto Yuji, for Monsterby Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Then the actor Orlando Bloom presented the Jury Prize to Fallen Leaves, by Aki Kaurismäki. The Finnish director, who has yet to win the Palme d’Or, was not present, but his actors were there, who read their thanks. “Thank you and Twist and shout,” they said, and applause poured down.
The mistake before the prize announced by Szifron
And it was time for the award for best director. But the President of the Jury, Ruben Östlund, began by saying “The Grand Prix will be presented by…”. He was wrong, as he was the best director. “It will be presented by Damián Szifron,” he said.
Director of wild tales he got up and said, “Okay, so le Prix goes to Tran Anh Hùng, per The passion of Dodin Bouffant”. American Pete Docter, creative director of Pixar Studios and director of Monsters Inc., on, Intensely AND SoulHe was the one who gave it to her.
This came as a surprise, as few expected an award for the Vietnamese film, which he directed The smell of green papayaand where Juliette Binoche is the cook and Benoit Magimel the chef, at the end of the 19th century.
And it was Chiara Mastroianni who made a mistake when she announced that Quentin Tarantino would award the Palme d’Or, when in reality it was the Grand Jury Prize, together with Roger Corman.
The director, “the myth”, as Quentin called him, arrived accompanied and with a stick. It was the first time that the entire Sala Lumière rose to a standing ovation. And the winner was Jonathan Glazer, per The area of interestabout the family of a Nazi commander who literally lives right next to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Quentin Tarantino had arrived at the Palais des Festivals with his wife, Daniella Pick.
Finally, the prestigious Palme d’Or was awarded to Jane Fonda.
After the closing ceremony, which marked the closing of the 76th Cannes Film Festival, the animated film was screened Elementary, by Peter Sohn, produced by Pixar. In Argentina it will be released next long weekend, Thursday 15 June.
And from there, all the guests, the Jury and the winners went to the Closing Party, on the beach.
But we’ll talk about that tomorrow.
Source: Clarin
