When Jane Fonda presented Justine Triet with the Palme d’Or in Cannes earlier this year for her remarkable film Anatomy of a Fall, one of cinema’s best-kept secrets was, just like that, making headlines around the globe. It wasn’t only for her award. In her acceptance speech, the director railed against Macronism and the suppression of dissent in the wake of France’s controversial pension reforms. “These protests were denied ... repressed in a shocking way,” she said. The “commercialisation of culture this neoliberal government supports is in the process of breaking France’s cultural exception,” she added, referring to the system...