The footage went viral. On Saturday, May 27, on the stage of the 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, the illustrious actress Jane Fonda presented the Palme d'Or to the French director Justine Triet for her film Anatomy of a Fall. Certainly too upset, the latter then offered the spectators a most funny moment by forgetting an important detail on her display when leaving to greet the jury: the parchment accompanying her trophy.
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On the video, Jane Fonda runs behind the 44-year-old filmmaker, who obviously does not hear her. Losing patience, we then see her throw the diploma in the back of his head, hoping to reach him, before raising her arms in the air towards the audience, with a gesture half-amused half-exasperated. A scene that made Internet users react.
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'Not very chic'
Some were amused by the reaction of Jane Fonda, 85. "Good reaction. Bravo Madam," one wrote. And another added: "The most beautiful gesture of this evening bravo Mrs. Fonda". Others, however, condemned the gesture of the actress of Barbarella. "Not very chic"; "Not sure she would have allowed herself the same thing at the Oscars. It was enough to put him behind the scenes as it should be done"; "Ah, you like it when you throw things at people," the comment reads.
A few minutes earlier, Justine Triet had cracked a vibrant speech at the time of her award ceremony. The one to whom we owe Sybil (with Adèle Exarchopoulos) or Victoria (with Virginie Efira), returned to the pension reform that has shaken the country this year, pointing the finger at the behavior of the government towards the people. Justine Triet denounced a "domineering power scheme, increasingly uninhibited" that erupts "in all spheres of society", including cinema. Justine Triet nevertheless becomes the second French director to win the supreme award at Cannes, after Julia Ducournau for Titane in 2021.