(See below for the full list of winners.)

Other winners included Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest which took the Grand Prize Tran Anh Hung who scooped Best Director for The Pot-au-Feu and an absent Aki Kaurismaki, whose Fallen Leaves was given the Jury Prize. The 97-year-old filmmaker and mentor to countless others, received a standing ovation and called Cannes “the most interesting film festival in the world.” To the audience, he said, “You are really lucky to be a part of it.”

We see ourselves making room for them, this place that I took 15 years ago in a world that was a little less hostile which still considered it possible to make mistakes and start over.”Įarlier in the evening, Quentin Tarantino appeared on stage to introduce Roger Corman. I dedicate this prize to all young female and male directors and to those who today are unable to make films. The commodification of culture that the neo-liberal government is defending is breaking the French cultural exception. She said, “This year, our country has experienced a historic dispute… This dispute was denied and suppressed in a shocking manner, and this pattern of increasingly uninhibited dominating power is breaking out in several areas obviously socially is where it is the most shocking, but we also see it in all spheres of society, and the cinema is no exception. Triet was emphatic in her acceptance, saying she couldn’t be content to only speak of the “joy” she felt, but also addressing the recent social unrest in France over retirement age reforms. This year is the first time there are seven women directors in competition.” Said Fonda, “The last time I came (to the festival) was 1963, a lot of you weren’t even born yet… There were no women directors competing at that time and it never occurred to us there was something wrong with that… We have progressed, but we have a long way to go.” Still, she noted, perhaps presaging what was about to transpire, “We have to celebrate change when it happens. Triet was preceded on stage by Jane Fonda who spoke before jury president Ruben Ostlund announced the win. Neon picked it up during the festival, giving the distributor bragging rights to the four latest Palme d’Or winners including Triangle of Sadness, Titane and Parasite.

In his review, Deadline’s Damon Wise called it “a cerebral smash” that “subvert(s) the pleasures of genre convention to explore issues of schadenfreude and plain morbid human curiosity.”

Winners take all