Justin Tritt’s “Anatomy of a Fall” won the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in a ceremony on Saturday where the festival’s grand prize was handed out for a drama set in the French Alps.
Anatomy of a Fall is the third film directed by a woman to win the Palme d’Or. It stars Sandra Holler as a writer who tries to prove her innocence over her husband’s death. Second prize at Cannes went to Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, an adaptation of the story of a German family living next door to Auschwitz.
Turkish actress Merve Dizdar and Japanese artist Koji Yakusho won the Best Actress and Actress awards on Saturday at the Academy Awards. The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. Tran Anh Hung won Best Director for “The Pot-au-Feu.”
Turkey’s Merve Dizdar won Best Actress for “About Dry Grasses,” the latest from festival favorite Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
She said she played “someone who’s fighting for her life and she’s overcome a lot of hardship.”
“Under normal circumstances, I would have to work hard on this character to understand her, but I live in a part of the country that has enabled me to understand who she is,” she said.
“I understand what it is like, being a woman in this field.”
The film focuses on a depressed teacher who is frustrated with his life in a remote village in Anatolia.
Filmed in Gillan’s visually appealing style, it looks at teacher-disciple relationships and the roots of political engagement.
Ceylan previously won the Palme d’Or for “Winter Sleep,” among the many accolades he’s received over the years at the Cannes Film Festival.
Japan’s Koji Yakusho won Best Actor at Cannes for German director Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days, a poignant story about a toilet cleaner in Tokyo.
“I want to specifically thank Wim Wenders… who has truly created an incredible character,” he said as he accepted the award.
The festival, which concluded on Saturday night, sometimes looked like a dream home for the elderly inhabited by old male symbols.
There was a stellar out-of-competition premiere of the new Indiana Jones movie, as 80-year-old Harrison Ford was brought to tears when he was awarded the honorary Palme d’Or.
Martin Scorsese, also 80, premiered his long-awaited Native American epic The Venus Moon Killers with Robert De Niro, 79.
European auteurs Marco Bellocchio, 83, Wim Wenders, 77, and Victor Ayres, 82, brought new movies.
oldest ever, 86-year-old Ken Loachshowing that he still has a fighting spirit with the last entry in the competition on Friday, “Old Oak”, a touching tribute to the solidarity of the working class.
Loach had no fewer than 15 films in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
[ad_2]
