Definitely, the closing evening of the Cannes Film Festival will have reserved more than one surprise. A video ignites social networks: we see Justine Triet, winner of the palme d’or for her film Anatomy of a fall, leaving the desk – after a speech that is also much talked about – to go greet the jury… forgetting the parchment that accompanies the trophy.
Jane Fonda notices this and tries to warn the French director, in vain. The American therefore decides to run after the freshly awarded winner, and failing to catch up with her, aims… and shoots, straight into the back of Justine Triet’s head. Before turning to the audience, shrugging, half annoyed, half amused.
At @Festival_Cannes, Justine Triet forgets her prize on stage, Jane Fonda throws at her ?? I love you Jane ???? pic.twitter.com/g0C3Rtnzti
Images that lend themselves to smiles… And to interpretation. The debate is raging between Internet users: some see it as a gesture of annoyance on the part of Jane Fonda, in reaction to the speech of the French director, who did not mince words against the government and denounced a “scheme of dominating power, more and more uninhibited”. Others simply see it as an image of jubilation and fun: “Some people think it’s a gesture against Triet’s committed speech. No way ! Jane Fonda is just so hallucinated and excited to award a palme d’or to a director (the 3rd in history) that she is in a moment of euphoria and joy. »
Some people think it’s a move against Triet’s committed rhetoric. No way! Jane Fonda is just so hallucinated and excited to award a Palme d’or to a director (the 3rd in history) that she is in a moment of euphoria and joy??
The speech of the Palme d’or makes people cringe, especially on the side of the government. Justine Triet slammed the latter, accusing him of having “shockingly denied” the movement against pension reform, and then stood up against “the commodification of culture that the current government is defending and which is in the process of break the French cultural exception”. “That same exception without which I would not be before you. »
The Minister of Culture quickly replied on Twitter: “Happy to see the palme d’or awarded to Justine Triet, the tenth for France, but flabbergasted by her speech so unfair. This film could not have seen the light of day without our French film funding model, which allows for a diversity that is unique in the world. Let’s not forget that. »
The Frenchwoman explained herself on France Inter: “The French cultural exception, we are envied all over the world, because she says that films do not need to be profitable. That’s what we want. And there is all the same a slow shift towards the idea that we have to think about this profitability of films. Yet it is something fundamental in the history of French culture precisely to preserve this idea of ??non-profitability. »