'Anatomy of a Fall' director Justine Triet joins New Zealand's Jane Campion and France's Julia Ducournau as only the third woman to have won the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or.
CANNES, France – French director Justine Triet became the third female director to win the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or on Saturday, May 27, beating out 20 other films in competition for the top prize.
Triet used her award speech to criticize how the protest against pension reforms in France “has been denied and repressed in a shocking way” and said more space needed to be made for young filmmakers to be able to make mistakes and start over.in 2019, won the prize over veteran directors like Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ken Loach and Wim Wenders, all of whom have at least one Palme d’Or under their belts.
Jane Fonda, who introduced the award, said that one day it would be normal for women to win, not historic. “We have a long way to go. But still, we have to celebrate change when it happens,” said the film icon and activist.
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