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Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall has won the Palme d’Or at the 76th Cannes film festival.
The twisty French Alps courtroom drama, which stars Sandra Hüller as a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband’s death, is only the third film directed by a woman to win the festival’s prestigious top prize. One of the two previous winners, Julia Ducournau, was on this year’s jury.
Cannes’ Grand Prix, its second prize, went to Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, a chilling Martin Amis adaptation about a German family living next door to Auschwitz.
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The awards were decided by a jury presided over by two-time Palme winner Ruben Östlund, the Swedish director who won the prize last year for The Triangle of Sadness. The ceremony preceded the festival’s closing night film, the Pixar animation Elemental.
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