Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Slide” won the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Movie Festival in a ceremony Saturday that handed the festival’s prestigious prime prize to a twisty French Alps courtroom drama.
“Anatomy of a Tumble,” which stars Sandra Hüller as a author attempting to confirm her innocence in her husband’s loss of life, is only the third film directed by a woman to earn the Palme d’Or. A single of the two former winners, Julia Ducournau, was on this year’s jury.
Cannes’ Grand Prix, its next prize, went to Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Fascination,” a chilling Martin Amis adaptation about a German family dwelling up coming doorway to Auschwitz.
The awards ended up made the decision by a jury presided around by two-time Palme winner Ruben Östlund, the Swedish director who gained the prize last yr for “The Triangle of Disappointment.” The ceremony preceded the festival’s closing night time movie, the Pixar animation “Elemental.”
The jury prize when to Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves,” a deadpan appreciate tale about a romance that blooms in a loveless workaday environment where by dispatches from the war in Ukraine regularly enjoy on the radio.
Most effective actor went to veteran Japanese star Koji Yakusho, who performs a reflective, middle-aged Tokyo guy who cleans toilets in Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Times.” Wenders’ film is a gentle, quotidian character examine.
The Turkish actor Merve Dizdar took most effective actress for the Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses.” Ceylan’s expansive tale is established in snowy jap Anatolia about a instructor, Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu), accused of misconduct by a younger feminine student. Dizdar performs as a mate each captivated and repelled by Samet.
“The character I potray in the film is another person who is fighting for her lifestyle and she’s get over a ton of difficulties. Underneath ordinary situations, I would have experienced to do the job really hard on this character,” stated Dizdar.
“I recognize what it is really like to be a woman in this spot of the country,” she continued. “I would like to devote this prize to all the females who are combating to exist and triumph over challenges in this environment and to retrain hope.”
Vietnamese-French director Tràn Anh Hùng took greatest director for “Pot-au-Feu,” a lush, foodie adore tale starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel and established in a 19th century French gourmet château.
Finest screenplay was won by Yuji Sakamoto for “Monster.” Sakamoto penned Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s nuanced drama, with shifting perspectives, about two boys having difficulties for acceptance in their college at property. “Monster” also won the Queer Palm, an honor bestowed by journalists for the festival’s strongest LGBTQ-themed movie.
Quentin Tarantino, who won Cannes’ leading award for “Pulp Fiction,” attended the ceremony to current a tribute to filmmaker Roger Corman. Tarantino praised Corman for filling him and a great number of moviegoers with “unadulterated cinema pleasure.”
“My cinema is inhibited, full of surplus and exciting,” claimed Corman, the unbiased movie maverick. “I come to feel like this what Cannes is about.”
The festival’s Un Specific Regard portion handed out its awards on Friday, providing the major prize to Molly Manning Walker’s debut function, “How to Have Sex.”
Saturday’s ceremony drew to close a Cannes edition that hasn’t lacked spectacle, stars or controversy.
The most important wattage premieres came out of competitiveness. Martin Scorsese debuted his Osage murders epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” a sprawling vision of American exploitation with Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone. “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” Harrison Ford’s Indy farewell, launched with a tribute to Ford. Wes Anderson premiered “Asteroid Town.”
The festival opened on a take note of controversy. “Jeanne du Barry,” a period drama co-starring Johnny Depp as Louis XV, performed as the opening evening movie. The premiere marked Depp’s greatest profile look given that the conclusion of his explosive demo final yr with ex-spouse Amber Listened to.
The choice of “Jeanne du Barry” extra to criticisms of Cannes for being too hospitable to men accused of abusive actions.