British director and screenwriter Jonathan Glazer won the Grand Prize for his film “The Zone of Interest”. The Grand Prix is awarded to the second best film of the festival.
France’s Justine Trier won the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival for “Anatomy of a Fall”, becoming the third female director to win the award in the Festival’s history.
The 44-year-old filmmaker succeeds Jane Campion (The Piano Lesson, 1993) and Julia Ducourneau (Titan, 2021), confirming the slow pace towards equality in a film industry historically dominated by men.
Accepting her award, the director slammed the way the French government had “shockingly dismissed” the movement against pension reform.
“This form of authoritarian power, increasingly uninhibited, is breaking out in several areas,” he added, noting that power was also seeking to “break the cultural exception without which (Trio) would not be in Cannes today.”
British director and screenwriter Jonathan Glazer won the Grand Prize for his film “The Zone of Interest”. The Grand Prix is awarded to the second best film of the festival.
The film presents the family life of the commandant of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz to remind “the banality of evil”.
“The Zone of Interest” was the most radical film of the competition: leaving the death camp out, the film denounces people’s ability to continue living indifferently while experiencing horror.
Turkala Merve Dizdar won the best actress award in the evening for her performance in the film “Dry Grasses” by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
“I would like to dedicate this award to all the women who struggle to overcome the difficulties of being in this world and keep hope” within themselves, said the actress, who plays a woman who falls in love with a teacher in a remote province of Turkey.
The Japanese Koji Yakusoone of the most famous actors in his country, won the best actor award tonight for his performance in Wim Wenders’ “Perfect days”.
“I want to give a special thanks to Wim Wenders and the co-writer (…). You have created a wonderful character,” he said excitedly on stage accepting his award.
In this film from the director of the film “Paris, Texas” (Phoenix d’Or, 1984), Koji Yakuso plays Hirayama, an employee of the Tokyo public toilets, a silent and lonely man who slowly opens up to others.
Source :Skai
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