Invited to speak on “the hot topics of the day” on BFMTV this Sunday, Élisabeth Borne launched a little dig at Justine Triet, the director of the film “Anatomy of a Fall” who harshly attacked the government in May during the Cannes Film Festival.
“I was told [que] it’s a film about the relationship with reality. Perhaps the director needs to think about her relationship with reality when she finds that we do not support creation sufficiently,” said the Prime Minister, judging Justine Triet’s speech “quite shocking” “in a country where there is just as much support for creation.” “I think that many players in the cultural sector remember the massive support that we were able to provide during the Covid crisis,” added the head of government.
Last Thursday, Élisabeth Borne admitted to being “offended” by the director’s comments nearby World, admitting to still not having gone to see the Palme d’Or-winning film. “I’m stuck,” she said. On BFMshe finally confided that she “would go[t] see this film, obviously, which looks excellent.”
More than a million entries one month after the film’s release
During the awards ceremony in Cannes, Justine Triet criticized the “commodification of culture that the neoliberal government defends”, which according to her is “breaking the French cultural exception, this same cultural exception without which [elle] will not be[t] not here today.” The filmmaker also mentioned “an extremely powerful and unanimous historic protest” in France against pension reform that the executive had “shockingly denied”.
“Anatomy of a Fall”, which intends to dissect the balance of power within a couple of artists, exceeded one million admissions in theaters in September, a month after its release.