Emmanuel Macron congratulates Justine Triet, winner of the Golden Globes with Anatomy of a Fall

The President of the Republic congratulated Justine Triet and the team of the film Anatomy of a Fall on X (formerly Twitter) this Monday. The film won two Golden Globes, for Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film.

This is the first time that the executive has spoken about this film since it won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The acceptance speech by director Justice Triet took on the appearance of an indictment which accused the government of having “shockingly denied” the protest movement against the pension reform and of being guilty of a “commodification of culture », which the Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul-Malak, defended herself from. “Ungrateful and unfair” remarks which had “stunned” her and displeased Emmanuel Macron who had not publicly congratulated the 45-year-old director.

Rima Abdul-Malak did not react to the international victory of Anatomy of a Fall, simply republishing the post of the President who said he was “proud to see French cinema rewarded at the Golden Globes.”

On the left side of the political spectrum, however, reactions are multiplying and sometimes putting this film in opposition to the support given by Emmanuel Macron to Gérard Depardieu. “If you are looking for a filmmaker who is the pride of France, but still not that of the president who prefers to praise Depardieu and despise

“Congratulations to Justine Triet, rewarded at the Golden Globes for her fabulous film Anatomy of a Fall. It’s a shame that the one who fought against pension reform and the repression of mobilizations against her was not chosen to represent France at the Oscars,” declared l’Insoumise Manon Aubry, using the title of the film to speak. of the reshuffle: “the Anatomy of the fall of a stillborn five-year term”.