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Cannes Film Festival: Titanium, by Julia Ducournau, flammable gold palm

2021-07-17T18:59:23.770Z


The 37-year-old Frenchwoman is the second woman director to win the prestigious award after Jane Campion in 1993 for La Leçon de piano.


"It's a huge game of poker,"

Julia Ducournau told us on Monday about her new film,

Titane

, and the performance of Vincent Lindon, unrecognizable as a firefighter captain. The young director (37 years old), rings on all fingers and nerve to spare, played and won.

Titanium

wins. Released in theaters on Wednesday, it won the Palme d'Or, with the nose and beard of old men in small form (Verhoeven, Moretti, Dumont) or too wise (Farhadi, Audiard, Ozon). Spike Lee and his jury awarded the competition's most rock'n'roll film. So rock'n'roll that the president ate the piece, from the start of the ceremony, in a strange moment of confusion.

To read also:

Titanium

by Julia Ducournau, sex, death and bodywork ...

After Jane Campion and her

Piano Lesson

in 1993, the Frenchwoman is the second female director to be covered in gold.

It succeeds the satirical thriller

Parasite

, by Bong Joon-ho, a filmmaker whom she adores like most South Korean filmmakers (Park Chan-wook, Hong-Jin Na).

"I admire the way they play

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Source: lefigaro

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