![]() ![]() The best actor award went to Kōji Yakusho, who plays a working-class Tokyo man in Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days.” The character spends his mornings cleaning public toilets around the city, while leaving himself free time to read books, raise trees and observe the people around him. ![]() The film leaves those horrors largely off-screen, while focusing on the officer and his wife (Hüller, who also starred in the Palme winner), asking audiences to consider the morality of the perpetrators. An adaptation of the World War 2 novel by Martin Amis (who passed away during the festival), the haunting film depicts the private life of the German commandant (Christian Friedel) responsible for executing countless Jews at Auschwitz. In accepting the award, Triet made a point of acknowledging the protests against French pension reform, which were forbidden from the festival.ĭucournau presented the Grand Prix to “ The Zone of Interest” by Jonathan Glazer. The prize was presented by Jane Fonda, who remarked on how far Cannes has come - setting a record for female representation, with seven woman helmers in competition this year - since the American star first attended. Triet is only the third woman to win the Palme d’Or (after Jane Campion for “The Piano” and “Titane” helmer Julia Ducournau, who joined Östlund on the jury this year). But the film is every bit as much an inquest into their marriage, bringing private details from the couple’s personal life into the courtroom for the press, public and audience to dissect, as if under a microscope. ![]() A year after collecting his second Palme d‘Or for “Triangle of Sadness,” Ruben Östlund bestowed the same honor to Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” a thought-provoking legal drama which purports to investigate the guilt or innocence of a popular novelist (Sandra Hüller), accused of murdering her husband. ![]()
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