You can run from sinking popularity in the polls, but you can’t hide. In case there was any doubt about that, the director of the winning film at Cannes cleared it up with a blunt message for President Macron.

In her acceptance speech for the Palme d’Or for her courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall,” Justine Triet spared the niceties, saying that this year France “suffered from historic and unanimous protests over the reform of the pension system” that that were “denied and repressed in a shocking way.”