A simple accident Iran Jafar Panahiwon the Palme de Oro at the 78th Cannes Film Festival with his story about violence in your countrywhich could not rise in 15 years, the galardón that was placed throughout the Grand Théâtre Lumiére auditorium.
Granted, Panahi was initially stuck in his ass, unable to get up, and once in the script I saw him visibly emotional.
“It’s really hard to talk about it,” I told an Iranian filmmaker who could travel to Cannes for 15 years without being able to leave his country, thanks convicted in 2010 of “collusion and collaboration against national security” and “propaganda against the system” of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Salió bajo Fianza, he was newly detained in July 2022 to protest the detention of filmmakers Mohammad Rasoulof y Mostafa Ale Ahmad y to burn locked until February 2023.
“There was no way to make this film other than with a compromised team,” said Panahi, who told “the whole world, all the Iranians with all the different opinions and the whole world,” we’re putting the differences to that side because “The most important thing is our country and the freedom of our country.”
I expressed my confidence in it We’re taking a moment to tell you what to expect how you choose to dress, how you choose or what you don’t want to do”.
Junto a él los players de A simple accident -Vahid Mobasseri, Mariam Afshari, Ebrahim Azizi or Majid Panahi- who they couldn’t hold back the tears while they ask the director.
Speech to receive the top prize of the festival for a film in which a man for a simple accident cree to recognize his tortured. Doubts arise and he goes looking for other normal people like him and innocent people like him who were caught and suffered by the same person’s bad manners.
Subtle, violent in background but not in form, with touches of intelligent humor and a final ending, the film is, as Panahi explained on screen at Cannes, as a result of being in prisonbecause in the past cinema only focused on society and not on violence.
The Palme de Oro was announced by the president of the Cannes jury, a French actress Juliette BinocheI said some emotional words before deciding on the title of the movie I loved.
“We’re here with all who are satisfied not by political opinion but by heartfor compassion, for tenderness, for shared humanity, for rediscovering freedom. Art provokes, challenges, twists”, he stated.
And art “moves the creative energy of the most valuable, most alive part of us, the power that allows you to turn small hearts into forgivenessin hope and in new life”, which led me to choose Panahi’s film as the best of the festival.
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