Jonathan Glazer won the grand prize for his film “The Zone of Interest”, in which he recounts the life of the family of the commandant of the concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz in order to remind him of “the insignificance of evil”. .
And “The Zone of Interest” was considered the most extreme film in the competition, as it deliberately did not show death camp scenes to show the ability of humans to continue to coexist with the brutality and indifference of terror.
Palme d’Or
French director Justine Triet won the Palme d’Or at Cannes for her film Anatomy of a Fall, which is largely set in a courtroom.
Triet became the third director to win this prestigious award.
The Palme d’Or is the highest distinction in the history of the Cannes Film Festival.
Justine Trier, 44, succeeds Jane Campion (“Le Piano” in 1993) and Julia DuCourneau (“Titan” in 2021), confirming the slow movement towards gender equality in the cinema sector, traditionally dominated by men.
Two acting prizes
The prizes for best actor performance were awarded on Saturday evening at the Cannes Film Festival to Japanese Koji Yakusho and Turkish Merve Dizdar, at the end of the seventy-sixth session of the international cinema event.
Yakusho, who won Best Actor for his role in Wim Wenders’ film ‘Perfect Days’, said emotionally onstage after receiving the award, “I would especially like to thank Wim Wenders and the co-writer of scenario (. ..) you made an incredible character”.
In this film from Paris, Texas, winner of the Palme d’Or in 1984, Koji Yakusho plays Hirayama, a secretive and reclusive employee of Tokyo’s public toilets who gradually begins to open up to others.
In terms of female representation, the prize for best actress was awarded to the Turkish Merfa Dizdar for her role in the film “On Dry Weeds” (Kuru Otlar Ustune) by her compatriot Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
The actress, who plays a woman who falls in love with a teacher in a remote Turkish province, said: “I would like to dedicate this award to all the women who struggle to overcome the difficulties of their life in this world and keep hope alive. ”
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