Filmmaker Justine Triet becomes the third female director ever to win the prestigious prize.
French murder mystery film Anatomy of a Fall has taken the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Her thriller stars German actress Sandra Hüller, who also stars in the Cannes runner-up, The Zone of Interest. Triet also criticised what she called the government's "commercialisation of culture" - leading France's Culture Minister Rima Abdul MalakThe Grand Prix, the second-highest prize, went to British director Jonathan Glazer for The Zone of Interest, an adaptation of the late Martin Amis's novel of the same name about a family living next to Auschwitz.
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