“Thank you”: the left hailed the speech of director Justine Triet, Palme d’or in Cannes, who denounced the pension reform after receiving the Palme d’or in Cannes on Saturday evening.
The movement protesting the reform was “denied and repressed in a shocking way”, denounced Justine Triet, evoking a “domineering power scheme”. She also felt that the power was trying to “break the French cultural exception”.
“Thanks to Justine Triet for her courage in addition to her talent. Cannes is returning to its tradition. It is the resistant left that created this festival”, reacted the leader of LFI Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Twitter.
“Six months that all of France is contesting. Six months that we are undergoing the will of a single person. Thank you, Madam, for keeping your neck stiff”, also supported the number one of the PS Olivier Faure, while Marine Tondelier, boss of EELV , was ironic about these “news of Macron’s 100 days to appease, live from the Cannes Film Festival”.
“Commodification of bodies, Commodification of culture, Congratulations to Justine Triet for her Palme d’or and her speech which strikes so rightly”, added the national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel.
Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak immediately responded to Justine Triet’s comments, saying she was “flabbergasted by her unfair speech”. “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 it”, she wrote on social networks.
This reaction made people jump to the left. Olivier Faure said he was “flabbergasted to see a Minister of Culture who thinks that when you finance a film, you buy the conscience of its authors”.
“Don’t think any more, take your subsidies and silence in the ranks”, launched the PCF.
Figures from the presidential camp entered the debate, provoking a few skirmishes on Twitter. “Anatomy of the ingratitude of a profession that we help so much? and of an art that we love so much”, tackled Roland Lescure, Minister Delegate for Industry, in reference to the award-winning film, “Anatomie d’une chute “.
“Perhaps it is time to stop distributing so much aid to those who have no awareness of what it costs taxpayers,” threatened the chairman of the Assembly’s Economic Affairs Committee, Guillaume Kasbarian (Revival).
The ecologist Benjamin Lucas saw it as a call “for censorship, by blackmailing subsidies”: “It’s Le Pen in the text”, according to him.
28/05/2023 10:10:17 – Paris (AFP) – © 2023 AFP