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Jus­tine Triet’s Anato­my of a Fall wins the 2023 Palme d’Or

27 May 2023

Words by David Jenkins

Two people lying in the snow, one standing and one prone on the ground.
Two people lying in the snow, one standing and one prone on the ground.
The psy­cho­log­i­cal court­room thriller with the great San­dra Hüller wins the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

We all know how it goes down… The Cannes press corps spend ten days col­lat­ing, spec­u­lat­ing and algo­rith­mi­cal­ly pre­dict­ing in the hope that they can offer the inside track on the final-day prize-giv­ing. And every year, like some bout of forced amne­sia, we for­get that the jury are in a bub­ble, have not inter­act­ed with a sin­gle word of the vast reams of ver­biage that were lov­ing­ly placed into the pub­lic domain, and have gone their own sweet way.

And that is how it should be, as it would be a tremen­dous bore if the con­sen­sus pick was always vic­to­ri­ous. This year, Reuben Östlund and his jury were giv­ing a vin­tage crop of films to adju­di­cate and, well, their task this year is cer­tain­ly unen­vi­able. One thing we can say, though, is that the chances of the Palme d’Or going to a duf­fer or some mid­dling effort that all jurors liked but nobody loved are much slim­mer than usual.

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Below, with­out fur­ther ado, are all the prizes from the 2023 festival.

Short film: 27 by Flóra Anna Buda
Cam­era d’Or: Inside the Yel­low Cocoon Shell by Pham Thien An
Best Actor: Koji Yakusho for Wim Wenders’s Per­fect Days
Best Actress: Merve Diz­dar for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grass­es – Read our review
Best Screen­play: Yuji Sakamo­to, Mon­ster by Hirokazu Koree­da Read our review
Jury Prize: Fall­en Leaves by Aki Kau­ris­mä­ki Read our review
Best Direc­tor: Tran Ahn Hung for The Pot-au-Feu Read our review
Grand Prix: The Zone of Inter­est by Jonathan Glaz­er Read our review
Palme d’Or: Anato­my of a Fall by Jus­tine Tri­et Read our review

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