Titane filmmaker Julia Ducournau didn’t just make history this year as the first female director to win Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or solo, she was also the first to find out she had won the prize twice during the ceremony.Jury president Spike Lee famously inadvertently lifted the lid on the film’s triumph at the beginning of the awards night after a communication error. “I was in shock,“ recalled Ducournau today at Contenders London, “I started doubting myself, I thought he had misread, I thought the cards were wrong.
When the other prizes were coming and I wasn’t winning anything, I thought it was a huge mistake, me coming back [to Cannes].
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