The Palme d'Or goes to the Japanese film by Kore-eda, A family business, but there is a lot of Italy in the final evening of the Cannes Film Festival, the one that awarded the awards. The edition, characterized by the battle of women against harassment, supported by the MeToo movement born after the Weinstein case last year, closed with the award for best actor to Marcello Fonte, actor of Dogman by Matteo Garrone, and Best Screenplay to Alice Rohrwacher for Happy Lazarus. After a year, 2017, with no Italian films in the real competition (but Jasmine Trinca awarded as best actress at Certain Regard) this year we celebrate.
The best movie though is A family business by the Japanese master Kore-eda Hirokazu, the story of a family in which there is not even a blood relationship. In the house of an old woman who lives on her pension (the always extraordinary Kirin Kiki) a woman, her partner, a boy found abandoned in a car, another young woman, are installed on various occasions and with various roles, and finally an abused little girl who is welcomed into the family and inserted into the practice of "shoplifter", a shoplifter with whom they manage the difficult family economy. "I hope that the countries that normally face each other here meet through cinema - said the director - I would like to share with the two directors who were not able to be here in Cannes and the young people who are starting this profession".
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Asia Argento, called to present the award for best actress, took the microphone and said: “In 1997 I was raped by Harvey Weinstein, here in Cannes. I was 21, this festival was her hunting ground. I want to make a prediction that he is never welcome here again. Also tonight, seated among you - she added, addressing the audience - are those who have yet to be held responsible for their conduct against women. You know who you are, but more importantly, we know who you are and we won't let you get away with it any longer."
