The Académie des César woke up with new decorations this Wednesday morning. “Collages feminicides”, a feminist collective, stuck anti-Roman Polanski messages on the night of February 25 to 26 on the organization's headquarters in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
"Violanski the Caesar of shame", is it written in red and black letters. Or “Violanski: do you really want to live in a world where a pedophile is named 12 times to the Cesars? "
@CollagesParis tonight, the heroines worked to denounce impunity for #Polanski and omerta in the world of cinema. Collage on the seat of the academy and in front of the Pleyel hall We request the cancellation of the ceremony. #violanski #extradition # Cesar2020 #honte pic.twitter.com/t0AbWae9Ll
- Sophie Tissier #GiletsJaunes #NousToutes (@TPMIntermittent) February 26, 2020Similar messages were also pasted in front of the Pleyel hall (Paris VIII), where the 45th Cesar ceremony will take place on Friday. "Public Complice", "Cinemas accomplices", could be read this Wednesday morning, reports Franceinfo. The collective behind the collages demands "an end to impunity and the protection of rapists", as well as the cancellation of the ceremony.
A happening during the ceremony
Indignant at the appointments of Polanski's film, “J'accuse”, several feminist associations called for a rally Friday at 6 p.m. in front of the Salle Pleyel.
They no longer accept, like part of public opinion, that the Franco-Polish filmmaker receives honors, while he has been targeted since November by a new accusation of rape and still being prosecuted by American justice in the context a procedure for the misappropriation of a minor launched in 1977.
The feminist collective #NousToutes has notably announced that it will organize a happening during which it will award filmmakers "other prizes - less glorious -, so that the curtain rises on the protection that the world of arts and cinema ”.
Caesar under tension
A few days after the conviction of ex-Hollywood tycoon Harvey Weinstein - convicted on Monday of sexual assault and rape - an important step for the #MeToo movement, this resumption of the Polanski controversy stains.
Pushing the nail, actress Adèle Haenel, who created an earthquake in French cinema in November by accusing director Christophe Ruggia of "repeated touching" when she was a teenager, said in an interview with The New York Times on Monday that the France had "completely missed the check mark" of #MeToo. The 31-year-old actress, vying for the César award for best actress for "Portrait of the girl on fire", warned: "To distinguish Polanski is to spit in the faces of all the victims. It means: it is not so serious to rape women . "
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The director Céline Sciamma, very involved in the collective 50/50 which promotes equality in cinema, estimated in the British daily The Guardian that France was "a country in which there is a lot of sexism, and a strong patriarchal culture ”.