El filme inglés “Anatomy of a fall” won the Palma de Oro at the Cannes Film Festival

2023-05-27 20:18:02

CANNES, France (AP) — Filmmaker Justine Triet’s French thriller “Anatomie d’une chute” (“Anatomy of a Fall”) won the Palme d’Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, on Saturday. Cannes.

Triet hugged actress Jane Fonda onstage as she accepted the award at the 76th International Festival awards ceremony.

The film, which stars Sandra Hüller as a writer trying to prove her innocence in the death of her husband, is only the third film directed by a woman to win the Palme d’Or. One of the two previous winners, Julia Ducournau, was in this year’s jury.

The Cannes Grand Prix, the second-highest prize in the competition, went to Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” a chilling adaptation by Martin Amis about a German family living next door to Auschwitz. .

The awards were decided by a jury chaired by two-time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund, the Swedish director who won the award last year for “The Triangle of Sadness.” preceded the nocturnal screening of the film “Elemental”, an animated film from Pixar studios, which closed the festival.

The jury prize went to Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves,” a deadpan love story about a romance blossoming in a loveless everyday world, where dispatches from the war in Ukraine are regularly replayed. on the radio.

The best actor award went to veteran Japanese star Koji Yakusho, who plays a thoughtful middle-aged Tokyo man who cleans toilets in Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days.” Wenders’ film is an everyday, gentle character study.

Turkish actress Merve Dizdar won the Best Actress award for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses”. The story is set in snowy eastern Anatolia and portrays a teacher, Samet (Deniz Celiloglu), after being accused of misconduct by a young student.

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