‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Wins the Palme d’Or

The 76th Cannes Film Festival ended Saturday with the Palme d’Or awarded to “Anatomy of a Fall.” Directed by Justine Triet, this mental thriller facilities on a lady who is delivered to trial after the mysterious demise of her husband. Written by Triet and Arthur Harari, the movie was an early favourite with critics.

Triet is the third lady to have gained the Palme; Julia Ducournau gained in 2021 for “Titane,” and Jane Campion took the prize in 1993 for “The Piano.”

The Palme was offered to Triet by Jane Fonda, who famous the “historic” variety of girls — seven — who had movies competing for the highest honor. The robust primary competitors, with a jury led by the director Ruben Ostlund, successfully introduced that the competition had returned to full power after a number of unsteady pandemic years.

The Grand Prix, basically the competition’s runner-up award, was given to “The Zone of Interest.” Directed by Jonathan Glazer and based mostly on the novel of the identical title by Martin Amis, the movie facilities on the commandant of Auschwitz and his spouse, whose house is adjoining to the extermination camp. An icy exploration of the banality of evil — the household eats, relaxes and sleeps to the fixed sounds of screams, shouts and gunfire — the film sharply divided the critics right here.

“Fallen Leaves,” the most recent from the Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, gained the Jury Prize. A love story in a gently humorous and melancholic key, the film stars Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen as a pair who meet one night time in Helsinki. The actors accepted the award on behalf of their director, who sat out the presentation.

Best director went to the Vietnamese-French filmmaker Tran Anh Hung for “The Pot-au-Feu.” A luxurious drama set within the late nineteenth century, the movie stars Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel as a gourmand couple who stay and prepare dinner in rural France. The film’s deal with the sensual pleasures of meals charmed many, although a less-enchanted critic likened it to a French Nancy Meyers film.

The screenwriting prize was awarded to Yuji Sakamoto for “Monster.” Directed by the Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda, this touching drama facilities on a boy whose sudden habits points at college escalate with profound penalties. “Monster” encompasses a delicate rating by Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died final month.

The greatest actor prize went to the nice veteran Japanese actor Koji Yakusho, the star of Wim Wenders’s “Perfect Days.” The movie facilities on a loner who works cleansing (some superb) public restrooms in Tokyo. His quiet, routinized existence is disrupted by an sudden go to from a niece, an interlude that brings him pleasure but in addition anguish. Wenders, whose documentary “Anselm” was proven out of competitors, watched with a broad smile as Yakusho obtained the award.

The greatest actress prize went to Merve Dizdar for her function as a instructor in “About Dry Grasses” from the Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan. This slow-boiling drama facilities on a male instructor, Samet, who turns into more and more bitter about his job instructing in distant Eastern Anatolia. Dizdar’s character, Nuray, helps him via his disaster, a stereotypical function that the actress elevates with heat and subtlety.

The prize for Un Certain Regard, a piece that tends to characteristic youthful administrators and what the competition calls “more artistically daring” work than in the principle competitors, was gained by “How to Have Sex,” the directorial debut from the British filmmaker Molly Manning Walker. The prize for first characteristic, the Caméra d’Or, was given to “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell,” from the Vietnamese-born director Thien An Pham. The Palme for the very best quick movie was offered to “27,” from the Hungarian animator Flóra Anna Buda.