A jury chaired by final yr’s Palme d’Or winner, Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, added a bit little bit of historical past to the Cannes Movie Competition by adjudging Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall one of the best among the many 21 movies that competed for the Palme d’Or this yr. However in doing so, it didn’t spring any shock.
Triet is just the third girl director to win the competition’s prime prize after Jane Campion (The Piano, 2001) and Julia Ducournau (Titane, 2021), who was additionally on the jury this yr.
Anatomy of a Fall is a few well-liked novelist who’s on trial for allegedly murdering her husband. The movie is greater than only a authorized drama it’s a dissection of marriage, too.
Ducournau offered the Grand Prix to English director Jonathan Glazer for his Holocaust drama The Zone of Curiosity.
In The Zone of Curiosity, the Nazi atrocities happen off digicam. The movie focuses on the non-public lifetime of a commandant of the Auschwitz focus camp performed by Christian Friedel and his spouse essayed by Sandra Huller (additionally the lead actress of Anatomy of a Fall).
“Anatomy of a Fall” and The Zone of Curiosity have been anticipated to be among the many massive winners on the 76th Cannes Movie Competition.
The Palme d’Or was offered to Triet by veteran actress Jane Fonda.
The win for Triet in a contest by which one-third of the entries have been helmed by girls was within the health of issues. However other than the Palme d’Or winner, all the opposite girls within the fray went empty-handed.
The Jury Prize was received by Aki Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves, a outstanding movie that appears for hope amid despondency by means of a love story of two individuals whose lives cling by a thread.
The perfect actor award was expectedly received by Koji Yakusho for his transferring efficiency in Wim Wenders’ Tokyo-set movie Good Days. He performs a person who cleans bogs by day and reads, listens to music and waters and pictures crops in his free time.
The perfect actress award got here as a shock it went to Turkish actress Merve Dizdar for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses, a few male artwork instructor accused of sexual misdemeanour.
Sakamoto Yuji received one of the best screenplay prize for Hirokazu Koreeda’s Monster, which additionally received the Queer Palm earlier within the day.
The prizes for the Un Sure Regard part have been introduced on Friday night. Debutante British director Molly Manning Walker took dwelling the highest prize of the part for How one can Have Intercourse.
The competition’s Digicam d’Or award for one of the best first movie of a director was received by the three-hour Vietnamese movie, Contained in the Yellow Cocoon Shell, directed by Thien Ann Pham. The movie performed in parallel Administrators Fortnight.
