(ANSA) - CANNES, JUL 18 - Cannes 2021 will remain in the annals of the festival: all in masks with the negative result of the Covid test to be exhibited at the entrance, an unprecedented gaffe by jury president Spike Lee to unveil the Palme d'Or at the beginning of the ceremony, the historic victory of a woman, the French Julia Ducournau for the second time ever (the other was Jane Campion and also halfway with Chen Kaige) and after 28 years. Machi is this director who made history and who last night at the official dinner on the beach of the Majestic received the congratulations of all the colleagues in line as for a papal audience? She is young, 37 years old, from Paris, a Valkyrie who was Cronenberg, passionate about Hitchcock and horror and only two feature films to her credit.Discovered by the Semaine dellaCritique for the cannibal tale Raw - A crude truth in 2016, Julia Ducournau signed with Titane the portrait of a mutant warrior, Alexia / Adrien played by AgatheRousselle, magnetic revelation of a disturbing and visual film (the critics loved it or hated it without vie di mezzo), forbidden to the age of 16 in France and that - despite the excess thriller / horror / violence of the story of a * serial killer who makes love with the car and masks his sexual identity by looking for his lost father (Vincent Lindon) - launched the theme of gender and fluidity like a bomb. "We are beyond the concepts of gender, it is in love that we feel who we are without determinism", he said after receiving the Palme d'Or he had warmly thanked the jury for "having recognized the greedy and visceral need we have for a more fluid and inclusive world ".
And then there is Spike Lee: the president of the jury who became a gaffer for a night under the eyes of the whole world. The director has never recovered: at dinner he walked around in a downcast, like a beaten dog, trying to greet as many people as possible. From a distance, festival delegate Thierry Fremaux tried to keep his cool in a chaotic festival finale with everyone in shock. "It was hard, complicated, but we made it," he told ANSA, thanking the press proven by the situation. (HANDLE).