Last night, a few minutes after the award of the Palme d'Or to Justine Triet for her film Anatomy of a Fall, 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 latter, trophy in hand, had indeed declared that "thiscountry has been crossed by a historic, extremely powerful, unanimous challenge to the pension reform. This protest was denied and shockingly repressed. And this increasingly uninhibited domineering power pattern is breaking out in several areas. Obviously socially, this is the most shocking...
»The night, often a good advisor, passed but obviously did not appease the Minister of Culture who returned this morning to the microphone of BFMTV on the controversial remarks of the young director honored by the jury of the Côte d'Azur Festival. Reaffirming the freedom of opinion and expression of the French Republic, the politician decrypted, point by point, the criticisms of the distinguished filmmaker on the Croisette.
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Rima Abdul Malak defends the French cultural exception
Faced with the attack on Justine Triet, who said that "... The commodification of culture that this neoliberal government defends is breaking the French cultural exception....", Rima Abdul Malak expressed her disagreement saying that under the Macron presidency "the government has continued to defend the French cultural exception, and even adding, culture is not a commodity like the others.
»And to support her point, the minister wanted to be precise, detailing the government measures taken in favor of culture: "We have brought to the European level a directive allowing platforms to finance a share of French production. There is an obligation of 20% financing. Not to mention the aid deployed during the crisis, more than 400 million euros for the world of cinema, and those of the National Center for Cinema and Moving Image (CNC), a third of which concerns first films.
»Ingratitude or incomprehension, Rima Abdul Malak thinks that Justine Triet's voice does not represent the majority of cinema people. She even sees in the speech of the young holder of the Palme d'Or a very clearly marked political orientation: "In the speech of Justine Triet there is clearly an ideological background of the extreme left, I respect her positions, but she obviously has this argument, she starts from the pension reform that she contests, she continues. (...) She starts from this to criticize today's aid system to say that before it was better. I would like her to give me the figures and the facts on which she relies." The ball is now in the court of the director of Anatomy of a Fall...