During her Palme d'Or acceptance speech at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday, French film director Justine Triet criticized the "shocking" repression of the pension reform protests by French President Emmanuel Macron.
Triet made reference to the flurry of protests that have engulfed France this year as she entered the stage to accept the award for her film "The Anatomy of a Chute."
"This year this nation has been taken over by a memorable, very strong, consistent dissent on benefits change. This dissent has been denied and quelled in a stunning manner," Triet pushed.
Triet maintained that a power pattern that is "increasingly uninhibited" is emerging in various facets of French society, including the film industry.
Triet went on to say, "The neoliberal government's defense of the commodification of culture is breaking the French cultural exception." She was introduced the honor by the famous entertainer Jane Fonda in front of an audience.
Triet went on to say, "We have to make room for them, room I was given 15 years ago in a slightly less hostile world where it was still possible to make mistakes and start over."
After New Zealand's Jane Campion and France's Julia Ducournau, Triet is only the third woman to win the Palme d'Or, one of the most prestigious awards in the film industry.
Her work - a show about a lady associated with her better half's homicide - beat off contests including Wes Anderson's "Space Rock City."
For his film "Zone of Interest," about a family who lives next to Auschwitz, British director Jonathan Glazer received the Grand Prix, the second-highest award after the Palme d'Or.
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