When Justine Triet held her Palme d’Or in her hands, at the height of the glamorous Cannes closing ceremony, the French director spoke four rather simple words into the microphone: “Please come up, Sandra”. Whereupon Sandra Hüller jumped up in the auditorium, in a black dress with silver glitter applications, and climbed into the limelight of the stage herself: as Queen of Cannes 2023.