“Anatomy of a Fall” wins top prize at film festival
Justine Triet shows off the Palme d’or for “Anatomy of a Fall” on Saturday at the 76th international film festival in Cannes, France.
Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” won the Palme d’or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival in a ceremony Saturday that bestowed the festival’s prestigious top prize on an engrossing, rigorously plotted French courtroom drama that puts a marriage on trial.
“Anatomy of a Fall,” which stars Sandra Hüller as a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death, is only the third film directed by a woman to win the Palme d’or.
Cannes’ Grand Prix, its second prize, went to Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” a chilling Martin Amis adaptation about a German family living next door to Auschwitz. Hüller also stars in that film.
The awards were decided by a jury presided over by two- time Palme winner Ruben Östlund, the Swedish director who won the prize last year for “Triangle of Sadness.” The ceremony preceded the festival’s closing night film, Pixar’s “Elemental.”
The jury prize went to Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves,” a deadpan love story about a romance that blooms in a loveless workaday Helsinki where dispatches from the war in Ukraine regularly play on the radio.
Best actor went to veteran Japanese star Koji Yakusho for Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days.”
Turkish actor Merve Dizdar took best actress for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “About Dry Grasses.”
The biggest- wattage premieres came out of competition. Martin Scorsese debuted his Osage murders epic “Killers of the Flower Moon.” “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” Harrison Ford’s Indy farewell, launched with a tribute to Ford. Wes Anderson premiered “Asteroid City.”