Jane Fonda Flings Awards Scroll at Palme d’Or Winner Justine Triet

V.F. has reached out to Fonda’s representatives for comment of her unorthodox scroll delivery method.

Okay, with that out of the way, we can take a look at what else won big prizes in anticipation of what will be coming to your local art house theater over the next 11 months. 

Don’t feel like too much of a yutz if you’ve never heard of Justine Triet. Her movies have not made too much of a splash on these shores just yet. The good news is that her last two features, the dramedy Sibyl starring Virginie Efira and Adèle Exarchopoulos and rom com In Bed With Victoria, also starring Efira, are both streaming for free on Tubi and, if you’ve got a library card, Kanopy. Become the expert now before NEON releases Anatomy of a Fall in North America.

Reviews of the courtroom thriller, in which Toni Erdmann star Sandra Hüller may or may not have killed her husband, were positively giddy, with Filmmaker Magazine calling it “immaculate,” The Guardian cheering it for being “invigoratingly cerebral,” and The Playlist hailing the movie’s “self-imposed stylistic rules.” 

With the win, Triet becomes just the third woman to with the Palme d’Or. She joins Julia Ducournau (who happened to be on this year’s jury) for Titane and Jane Campion for The Piano.

The second place prize, the Grand Prix, went to Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of Martin Amis’s novel The Zone of Interest. (Oddly enough, the movie had its premiere nearly simultaneously with the British author’s passing.) The film is a domestic drama, of sorts, at the home of an Auschwitz commandant. As with Glazer’s other films (Under the Skin, Birth, and Sexy Beast) many critics have noted its “formalist” qualities, which is another way of saying it looks, sounds, and feels strange, and may go out of its way to remind you you are watching a movie. V.F.’s critic likened the picture to a descent into hell, and wrote that “to be steeped so thoroughly in the everyday life of a mass murderer and his nattering family is to remember, quite crucially, that not all actors in the Final Solution were raving lunatics like their Führer.” 

Though Glazer is British, The Zone of Interest is in German, and stars Christian Friedel and, what’s this?, Anatomy of a Fall‘s Sandra Hüller. She’s having a great weekend. A24 has North American distribution rights. 

A debate for the ages is trying to figure out what Cannes considers its third place award. Is it the Jury Prize or the Best Director prize? Either way, the Jury Prize went to the 66-year-old Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves. Kaurismäki’s latest is in league with his typically deadpan style. (His previous efforts include The Other Side of Hope, Cannes Grand Prix-winner The Man Without a Past, and Leningrad Cowboys Go West.) Best Director went to Trần Anh Hùng, the Vietnamese-born French director, for The Pot-au-Feu, a 19th century-set romantic film starring Juliette Binoche that, as per Variety, “opens with a mouthwatering cooking sequence that runs nearly 40 minutes.” Anyone that’s seen the director’s 1993 debut The Scent of Green Papaya knows what’s up on the foodie front.