Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival

The film “Anatomie d’une chute”, by the French Justine Triet, won today the Palme d’Or at the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival and made its director the third woman to win the highest award at the French Côte d’Azur film event.

The entire team of this film -which deals with the case of a man who dies when he falls out of the window in his house in the mountains, at a time when only his wife, his blind son and his dog were there- climbed to the stage to collect the award, which had been in charge of announcing the American actress Jane Fonda.

Before Triet, the only women who had won the Palme d’Or had been Jane Campion for “The Piano” in 1993, and Julia Ducournau, for “Titane” in 2021, who in this edition was part of the jury, chaired by the Swedish Ruben Östlund and also integrated, among others, by the Argentine filmmaker Damián Szifron.

Another of the great favourites, “The Zone of Interest” by the British Jonathan Glazer, won the Grand Prix. The award for Best Director went to the French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung for “La Passion de Dodin Bouffant”, starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel,

In script, the award went to the Japanese Yuji Sakamoto for “Monster”, a film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda that deals with childhood and homosexuality.

In the performance section, the winners were the Turkish Merve Dizdar, from the film “Dry Grasses” (Nuri Bilge Ceylan), and the Japanese Koji Yakusho for his role in “Perfect Days”, by Wim Wenders.

The list of feature films was completed by “Fallen Leaves” by Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki, which won the Jury Prize.

Regarding the short films, the winning work of the Palme d’Or was “27″, by the Hungarian Flóra Anna Buda, while the Icelandic “Fár”, by Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter, received a special mention.

With this, the proposals from Spain (“Aunque es de noche”), Colombia (“La perra”) and Argentina (“Nada de todo esto”) were left without a prize. The same thing happened to the Brazilian Karim Aïnouz, who with “Firebrand” was the only Latin American competing for the Palme d’Or in this 76th edition.

At the closing ceremony, the Camera d’Or was also awarded to the best debut feature presented at Cannes (including its parallel sections), which went to the Vietnamese Thien An Pham for “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell”, presented within the Fortnight of Filmmakers and counts Fasten Films from Barcelona among its co-producers.

The closing of this 76th edition at the Gran Théatre Lumiére will be completed tonight with the screening of “Elemental”, the new Pixar film.

Before the gala, in addition to the winning teams, movie stars and popular faces such as Orlando Bloom, Quentin Tarantino, Geri Halliwell, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Eva Longoria had paraded down the red carpet.

With information from EFE