Rima Abdul Malak, Minister of Culture in title, said she was "stunned" by the speech "so unfair" of the recipient of the highest distinction in Cannes. The minister said that under the Macron presidency "the government has continued to defend the French cultural exception" The ball is now in the court of the director of Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet, says Malak.
She sees in the speech of the young holder of the Palme d'Or a very clearly marked political orientation.