Paris, May 27 (BNA): Justin Tritt’s “Anatomy of a Fall” won the Palme d’Or at 76y The Cannes Film Festival in celebration on Saturday handed out the festival’s top prize to a court drama set in the French Alps.
“Anatomy of a Fall,” which stars Sandra Hüller as a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death, is the third film directed by a woman to win the Palme d’Or. One of the two previous winners, Julia DuCorneau, was a member of this year’s jury.
The second prize in Cannes went to “The Zone of Interest” by Jonathan Glazer. AP reports.
The awards are decided by a jury chaired by two-time Palme Award winner Robin Östlund, the Swedish director who won last year’s award for “Triangle of Sadness.” The ceremony was preceded by the screening of the closing night film of the festival, the animated film “Elemental” from Pixar.
The jury prize went to Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s Leaves, a deadpan romance about a love story thriving in an everyday, loveless world.
Best actor went to veteran Japanese star Koji Yakusho, who plays a reflective middle-aged man from Tokyo who cleans toilets in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days. The Wenders movie is a nice regular character study.
Turkish actress Merve Dizdar chose the Best Actress Award for her role in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film “About Dry Grasses”.
French-Vietnamese director Tran Anhung took home the best director award for “Pot-au-Feu,” a food-rich love story starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel and set in a 19th-century French gourmet chateau.
Yuji Sakamoto won Best Screenplay for Monster. The delicate drama was penned by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda.
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