Winners of Cannes Film Festival 2023
The winners talk French protests, writer’s strike, and women in film.
Justine Triet became the third woman in Cannes’ 76-year history to win the Palme d’Or for her film Anatomy of a Fall. The first two were Jane Campion for The Piano in 1993 and Julia Ducournau for Titane in 2021. Jane Fonda presented the prize, remarking that although “we have a long way to go…We have to celebrate change when it happens,” and that “This year is the first time there are seven women directors in competition.”
While accepting her Palme d’Or, Triet acknowledged the protests against French pension reform, which Cannes had forbidden, stating: “This year, our country has experienced a historic dispute…[which] was denied and suppressed in a shocking manner, and this pattern of increasingly uninhibited dominating power is breaking out in…all spheres of society, and the cinema is no exception. The commodification of culture that the neo-liberal government is defending is breaking the French cultural exception.”
Ducournau presented the Grand Prix to Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, Tran Anh Hung received Best Director for her film The Pot au Feu, and best actor and actress went to Kōji Yakusho (Perfect Days) and Merve Dizdar (About Dry Grasses) respectively. The Jury Prize was won by Aki Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves and John C Reilly referenced the ongoing WGA strike while presenting Queer Palm winner Yuji Sakamato’s Monster with Best Screenplay by arriving on stage and saying nothing for a good amount of time, then remarking: “What we just experienced is what a movie would be like without screenwriters.”
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The winners talk French protests, writer’s strike, and women in film.
Justine Triet became the third woman in Cannes’ 76-year history to win the Palme d’Or for her film Anatomy of a Fall. The first two were Jane Campion for The Piano in 1993 and Julia Ducournau for Titane in 2021. Jane Fonda presented the prize, remarking that although “we have a long way to go…We have to celebrate change when it happens,” and that “This year is the first time there are seven women directors in competition.”
While accepting her Palme d’Or, Triet acknowledged the protests against French pension reform, which Cannes had forbidden, stating: “This year, our country has experienced a historic dispute…[which] was denied and suppressed in a shocking manner, and this pattern of increasingly uninhibited dominating power is breaking out in…all spheres of society, and the cinema is no exception. The commodification of culture that the neo-liberal government is defending is breaking the French cultural exception.”
Ducournau presented the Grand Prix to Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, Tran Anh Hung received Best Director for her film The Pot au Feu, and best actor and actress went to Kōji Yakusho (Perfect Days) and Merve Dizdar (About Dry Grasses) respectively. The Jury Prize was won by Aki Kaurismaki’s Fallen Leaves and John C Reilly referenced the ongoing WGA strike while presenting Queer Palm winner Yuji Sakamato’s Monster with Best Screenplay by arriving on stage and saying nothing for a good amount of time, then remarking: “What we just experienced is what a movie would be like without screenwriters.”
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