After the controversy, came the time for explanation. Cold. While the speech of Justine Triet - winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for her film Autonomy of a fall - against the policy of the government had put back, Saturday, a coin in the machine of this pension reform, the Minister of Culture had said she was "stunned" in a tweet written in the wake. A word that may have surprised and, once again, divided the political class between supporters and opponents of raising the legal age. Guest of the program Daily Tuesday night, Rima Abdul Malak returned to his reaction hot. "I felt that, breathless and a pain in the stomach, that's the word that came to me," said the tenant of the rue de Valois.
If the minister was initially pleased that the France had won the prestigious sesame, she quickly became disillusioned. "I listen to these words of commodification of culture, neoliberal government that breaks the cultural exception, and there my blood is only a turn because it is false," said the member of the executive on TMC. On Sunday, Rima Abdul-Malak had not hesitated to stamp "far left" the words of the director on BFMTV. The minister recalled that some of the French films, including that of Justine Triet, had been financed thanks to public aid, she reaffirms that she does not "ask for any gratitude and no recognition for the government.
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The opportunity to set the record straight: "I find it ungrateful and unfair vis-à-vis the French model, the model of this cultural exception that we have been wearing for 80 years, and that the President of the Republic since 2017 and all the ministers who preceded me have carried, defended and even strengthened." "What justifies the words commodification, or breaking the cultural exception? What facts, what figures, what justifies this concern?" asked Rima Abdul-Malak.
All this, first of all, by recalling that the State had massively come to the aid of the cultural community during the health crisis. And then, that it has just committed to a plan of 350 million euros throughout the film and audiovisual ecosystem by 2030. "What I ask for is a little intellectual honesty," thundered the one who had already made a media coup at the end of April, during the ceremony of Molières. Stung to the quick, Rima Abdul-Malak had then taken a microphone after the intervention of two CGTist actresses in the social context so eruptive of the pension reform.
