French director Justine Trier won the 2023 Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or, on Saturday for her drama Anatomy of a Parachute. Triet becomes the third female director to receive the prestigious award.

Justine Trier won the Palme d’Or at Cannes 2023Photo: Daniel Cole/AP/Profimedia

The film “Anatomy of a Gutter” is a thriller about a writer, played by actress Sandra Haller, who tries to prove her innocence in a trial in which she is accused of the death of her husband.

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Justine Trier becomes the third director to win the Palme d’Or in the festival’s history. The 44-year-old director stars alongside Jane Campion (The Piano Lesson, 1993) and Julia DuCournot (Titan, 2021).

French actress Chiara Mastroianni was the host of the ceremony.

The jury, chaired by Ruben Ostlund, included: American actor Paul Dano (Fablemen, There Will Be Blood), his compatriot Brie Larson (Captain Marvel), French director Julia Ducourneau (2021 Palme d’Or for Titans ), Argentinian director Damian Sifron, screenwriter and director Atik Rahimi, Zambian director and screenwriter Rungano Nyoni, French actor Denis Menochet and Moroccan screenwriter and director Maryam Touzani, News.ro reports.

The official selection featured: “Club Zero” by Jessica Hausner, “Astroid City” by Wes Anderson, “The Zone of Interest” by Jonathan Glazer, “Fallen Leaves” by Aki Kaurismaki, “Les Filles d’Olfa” by Kauter Ben Hania, “Anatomie d “une chute” by Justine Trier, “Monster” by Hirokazu Kore-ed, “Il Sol Dell’Avvenire” by Nanni Moretti, “La Chimera” by Alice Rohrwacher, “Les Herbes sèches” by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, “L’Eté dernier” by Catherine Breil, “La Passion de Dodin Bouffant” by Tran Anh Hung, “Rapito” by Marco Bellochio, “May December” by Todd Haynes, “Firebrand” by Karim Aïnouz, “The Old Oak” by Ken Loach, “Banelle and Adam” by Ramat-Tulai Si, “Ideal days” by Wim Wenders, “Jeunesse” by Wang Bing, “Le Retour” by Catherine Corsini, “Black flies” by Jean-Stephane Scheu.

This year, out of competition, Martin Scorsese came to present his latest film “Killers of Flower Moon” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, who at the age of 80 climbed the steps for the last “Indiana Jones” and said goodbye to the character of the archeologist with a hat and a whip, or actress Jane Fonda and director Quentin Tarantino, each came to talk about movies and their careers.

Japanese actor Koji Yakusho, one of his country’s most famous actors, won the best actor award for his role in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night.

“I want to especially thank Wim Wenders and co-author (…). You have created a great character,” he excitedly said on stage. In this film directed by Paris, Texas (1984 Palme d’Or), he plays Hirayama, a public toilet worker in Tokyo, a taciturn man. and lonely ones who will gradually open up to others.

Turkish actress Merve Dizdar won the best actress award on Saturday for her role in Les Herbes Seches directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

“I would like to dedicate this award to all the women who are fighting to overcome the difficulties in this world and keep hope,” said the actress, who plays a woman who falls in love with a teacher in a remote province of Turkey.

The Grand Prix went to British director Jonathan Glazer for Zone of Interest, which reconstructs the family life of the commandant of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz to remind us of the “banality of evil.”

The record of the official competition at the 76th festival

Competition

  • Palme d’Or – “Anatomy of a Parachute” by Justine Trier
  • The main prize is “Zone of Interests” by Jonathan Glazer
  • Jury prize – “Les Feuilles Mortes” by Aki Kaurismäki
  • Award for Directing — Tran Anh Hung for The Passion of Dodin Bouffant
  • Screenplay Award – Yuji Sakamoto for Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster
  • Best Actor Award – Koji Yakusho in “Perfect Days” directed by Wim Wenders
  • Best Actress Award – Merve Dizar in “Les Herbes Seches”, directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  • Caéra d’Or – “L’Arbre aux Papillons D’or” by Thien An Pham
  • Palme d’Or for short film – “27” by Flora Anna Buda
  • Special mention of the jury for the short film – “Far” by Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter

Un Certain Regard, the main parallel section

  • Grand Prix – “How to Have Sex”, directed by Molly Manning Walker
  • Jury prize – “Hounds”, directed by Kamal Lazrak
  • Prix ​​​​​​​​​​​de la Nouvelle Voix – “Augure” by Baloji
  • Prix ​​​​​​​​d’Ensemble – “Crowra (La Fleur de Buriti), by João Salavisa and René Nader Messora
  • Prix ​​​​​​​​​​​de la Liberté – “Goodbye Julia” performed by Mohamed Kordofani

Cinefondion

  • First prize – “Norwegian Spring”, Marlene Emily Lyngstad, Den Danske Filmskole, Denmark
  • 2nd prize – “The Hole”, director Hwang Hyeung, Korea Academy of Film Arts, South Korea
  • 3rd Prize – Ayur (Monday) by Zineb Vakrim, ÉSAV Marrakech, Morocco

Weeks from Criticism

  • Grand Prix (Nespresso Grand Prix) – “Tiger Stripes” by Amanda Nell Eu
  • French Touch Prize jury – “Il pleut dans la maison” by Paloma Sermon-Day
  • Prix ​​​​​​​​​​​Fondation Louis Roederer de la Révélation – Jovan Hinich for his interpretation of Volodymyr Perishych’s “Lost Country”
  • Prix ​​​​​​Fondation Gan à la Diffusion – Pyramid Distribution
  • Prix ​​​​​​Découverte Leitz Cine du court métrage – “Bolero” by Nance Laborde-Jourdaa
  • Prix ​​​​​​​​SACD – “Le Ravissement” by Iris Kaltenbeck

Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, parallel section

  • SACD Award – “Un prince” by Pierre Creton
  • Europa Cinemas Label Award – “Creature” by Ellen Martin Gimeno
  • The Queer Palm Trophy, an LGBT award, returns this year to Hirokazu Koreda’s feature film Monster