Anatomy of a Fall: French thriller wins Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize

French execution enigma movie Anatomy of a Fall has taken the apical prize astatine this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Director Justine Triet won the Palme d'Or for her tense courtroom drama, which tells the communicative of a writer accused of her husband's murder.

She becomes the 3rd pistillate manager ever to triumph the prestigious prize, which was archetypal awarded successful 1955.

Her thriller stars German histrion Sandra Hüller, who besides stars successful the Cannes runner-up, The Zone of Interest.

As she accepted the award, Triet slammed the French authorities implicit its effect to caller pension protests.

"These protests were... repressed successful a shocking way," she said successful her speech, aft being presented with the grant by Hollywood prima Jane Fonda.

Triet besides criticised what she called the government's "commercialisation of culture" - starring France's Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak to deed back, saying she was "gobsmacked" by the "unfair" comments.

The Grand Prix, the second-highest prize, went to British manager Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest, an adaptation of the precocious Martin Amis's caller of the aforesaid sanction astir a household surviving adjacent to Auschwitz.

Meanwhile, the champion histrion grant went to Japan's Koji Yakusho for his relation arsenic a middle-aged Tokyo antheral who cleans toilets successful Wim Wenders' Perfect Days, and Turkey's Merve Dizdar was named champion histrion for About Dry Grasses.

And Vietnamese-French manager Tran Anh Hung won champion manager for Pot-au-Feu, a emotion communicative starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel acceptable successful a 19th period French chateau.

The festival was 1 of the biggest successful years for personage names connected the reddish carpet - Hollywood legends Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Quentin Tarantino, Isabella Rossellini and Sean Penn each made appearances.

Harrison Ford besides attended to person an honorary Palme d'Or up of the screening of his caller film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

The US star, 80, said helium was "deeply moved and humbled" to beryllium honoured with the award.

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded astatine the festival and was introduced successful 1955 by the festival's organising committee.

Triet bushed 21 different films successful contention for the accolade, seeing disconnected pugnacious contention from caller films by acclaimed directors including Wes Anderson and Ken Loach.