“Happy to see the Palme d’or awarded to Justine Triet, the 10th for France! But flabbergasted by his unfair speech, “reacted Rima Abdul Malak, on Twitter, a few minutes after the French director was awarded the highest award at the Cannes Film Festival for his film” Anatomy of a fall “. On stage, Justine Triet took advantage of the microphone to launch a few spades at the government and its cultural policy.
To which the Minister of Culture did not fail to respond: “This film could not have seen the light of day without our French model of film financing which allows a unique diversity in the world. Let’s not forget that,” she wrote.
Happy to see the Palme d’or awarded to Justine Triet, the 10th for France! But flabbergasted by his speech so unjust. 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 movement against pension reform in France has been “denied and shockingly repressed”, denounced the director when receiving her award for her film “Anatomie d’une chute”. “The country has been traversed by an extremely powerful and unanimous historical protest of pension reform,” she insisted.
She also criticized the “commodification of culture that the neoliberal government defends” and which is “breaking down the French cultural exception, this same cultural exception without which I would not be here today”.
