The French Government describes as "unfair" the speech of the director Justine Triet to receive the Palme d'Or for 'Anatomy of a fall' and claims its model of financing the sector. In France, where culture is taken very seriously and protected as a national treasure, the intellectual and the creator are endowed with a wisdom sometimes detached from reality, writes Frédéric Martel.

The last Cannes festival was a concentration of some of the vices and virtues of the French cultural system.