Palme d’Or Winner, Oscar Hopeful ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Thrives at French Box Office

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Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent After braving a massive backlash over her fiery political speech at the Cannes Film Festival, French director Justine Triet has succeeded in luring wide audiences in local theaters with her Palme d’Or winning film “Anatomy of a Fall.” A courtroom drama exploring the collapse of a marriage and a mother-son relationship, “Anatomy of a Fall” has scored the best B.O.

score at the French box office for a Palme d’Or winner since “Blue is the Warmest Color,” the 2013 erotic drama starring Lea Seydoux and Adele Exarchopoulos.

The movie, which was bought by Neon at Cannes, is hotly tipped to represent France is the Oscar race. The other French films that will likely be shortlisted by this year’s French committee include “The Taste of Things” (previously titled “The Pot-au-Feu,” a culinary romance starring Juliette Binoche which won best director at Cannes for French-Vietnamese filmmaker Trần Anh Hùng (“The Scent of Green Papaya”); and “Jeanne du Barry,” Maiwenn’s Versailles-set period starring Johnny Depp as Louis XV. “The Taste of Things” and “Jeanne du Barry” are being handled by IFC Films/Sapan Studios and Vertical, respectively.

Released by Le Pacte across 379 screens on Aug. 23, “Anatomy of a Fall” has grossed an estimated €2.1 million from nearly 300,000 tickets, surpassing the performance of previous Cannes winners, notably Ruben Ostlund’s Oscar-nominated satire “Triangle of Sadness” (by 86%) and even Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning “Parasite” (by 4%).