The film Anatomy of a fall by Justine Triet, Palme d’Or this year, exceeded one million admissions one month after its theatrical release, its distributor and producer announced on Saturday.
“The million” was exceeded Friday evening, distributor Jean Labadie (Le Pacte) told AFP. “Bravo Justine Triet, Thank you to the spectators,” wrote producer Marie-Ange Luciani on Instagram.
Equal game with “La Vie d’Adèle”
Anatomy of a fall far exceeds the last French Palme d’Or, Titanium (306,293 entries in 2021) and ahead Dheepan by Jacques Audiard in 2015 (663,000 entries).
He is on par with The Life of Adele by Abdellatif Kechiche (1.036 million admissions in 2013), and could hope to catch up Between the walls by Laurent Cantet (1.6 million in 2008), other French Palmes d’Or from the 2000s.
Not presented by France at the Oscars
Anatomy of a Fall, which meticulously dissects the balance of power and domination within a couple of artists, will not, however, be presented by France at the Oscars for best foreign film, as its promoters hoped. .
The commission of professionals which decides preferred Thursday The Passion of Dodin Bouffant by Tran Anh Hung, with Benoît Magimel and Juliette Binoche. This costume film about French culinary traditions is due out on November 8 in France.
A decision that supporters of Justine Triet’s film had difficulty swallowing: “What idiots are they”, wrote Marie-Ange Luciani on Instagram after this decision, when Jean Labadie judged this decision ” inexcusable” on X (ex-Twitter).
A political choice?
The president of the Union of Cinema Producers (UPC) Marc Missonnier said he was “a little stunned” by those who made a political interpretation of the choice for the Oscars, Justine Triet having sharply criticized the government, accused of wanting to “break” the cultural exception, by receiving its Palme.
“They are indisputable professionals” who chose, he recalled, stressing that the public authorities, via the CNC within which they meet, did not have the right to vote. “French cinema has long been looking for the right formula for choosing the film it sends to the Oscars. Let us instead formulate proposals for the future rather than falling into political anathema,” he added on X.