Third Female Director Film Awarded
Jury Grand Prize Goes to 'The John of Interest'
The top prize at the 76th Cannes International Film Festival went to 'Anatomy of a Fall.'
Directed by French female director Justine Triet, this film was announced as the winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival closing ceremony on the 27th (local time), beating out twenty other competing films. This is the third time a female director's film has won the Palme d'Or, following Jane Campion's 'The Piano' (1993) and Julia Ducournau's 'Titane' (2021). 'Anatomy of a Fall' tells the story of a woman trying to clear herself of the charge of murdering her husband. It received the second-highest score among the competing films according to the festival newsletter Screen Daily.
The Grand Jury Prize went to British director Jonathan Glazer's 'The Zone of Interest.' The story depicts a Nazi officer building a happy family in a house and garden beyond the fence of the Auschwitz concentration camp. It skillfully and wittily adapts the novel of the same name by British writer Martin Amis, who passed away on the 20th.
The Best Director Award was given to Vietnamese-born French director Tran Anh Hung for 'The Pot-au-Feu,' and the Jury Prize went to Finnish director Aki Kaurism?ki's 'Fallen Leaves.' The Best Screenplay Award was won by Yuji Sakamoto, who wrote the script for Hirokazu Koreeda's 'Monster.'
Song Kang-ho, who won Best Actor last year for 'Broker,' presented the Best Actress Award. He handed the trophy to Turkish actress Merve Dizdar, who starred in 'About Dry Grasses.' The Best Actor Award went to Japanese actor Koji Yakusho for his leading role in German director Wim Wenders' 'Perfect Days.' This is the second time a Japanese actor has won Best Actor, following Yuya Yagira for 'Nobody Knows' (2007).
© The Asia Business Daily(www.asiae.co.kr). All rights reserved.
