Breaking Baz: ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’s French Filmmaker Justine Triet On Why She’s Obsessed With Germany’s Superstar Actress Sandra Hüller
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Everybody mingles at Telluride. I have this abiding memory of Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at the festival’s opening-day brunch set atop a mountain in the San Juan range of the Rockies, bounding over to Cannes Palme d’Or winner Justine Triet and Sandra Hüller, her sublime lead star in the prize-winning movie Anatomy of a Fall.
Kramer hadn’t seen the movie at that point, but he’d heard about Triet’s brilliant Palmeacceptance speech, where she’d lambasted French President Emmanuel Macron over his draconian measures against those protesting new plans for pensions.
A vigorous conversation ensued on the mountaintop about politics and movies. I told Kramer that he’ll more than likely see Triet and Hüller again in March, if not before.
At present, Anatomy of a Fall is one of five titles in the running to be France’s pick for Best International Feature Film race at the 96th Academy Awards.
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