"I have the names of those who voted for Sneeze in the first round! It is from this nickname that Florence Foresti immediately adorned Roman Polanski during her presentation of the Caesars on Friday evening, proving that she would not be afraid to set foot in the dish.
In the middle of a storm, the weeks before the ceremony, she had decided to mute the microphones, not to add a piece to the controversy jukebox. All of his interviews had been canceled. In recent days, she had spent them locked in the "Pleyel bunker" to refine a performance expected as never in the history of the Caesars.
An arrival in the guise of Joker
Master of ceremonies of an edition necessarily out of the ordinary, marked by the resignation of the management of the Academy and the controversies linked to the twelve nominations of "J'accuse", the film by Roman Polanski (again accused of rape), comedian Florence Foresti knew he was expected. "Everything she has to say, she will say on stage," repeated those around her.
And, in fact, Foresti - fan of the British comedian Ricky Gervais, who has just spent all Hollywood in the sulphate during the presentation of the last Golden Globes - did not do in lukewarm water. After a short recorded sketch and a choreographed arrival on the theme of the film "Joker", she embarked on an introductory eighteen-minute speech starting with "Are you going to diversity?" ". Before continuing with a gradual ramp-up where all the sensitive aspects of this very special ceremony have been reviewed. "Good evening gentlemen ... they may have an electronic bracelet," she snickered, before wishing "Welcome to the last ... er, to the 45th ceremony of the Caesars"!
"J'accuse", this film about "pedophilia in the 1970s"
Pointing out that she was "courageous" to have agreed to animate these Caesars at risk, the humorist attacked head-on the great absent from the evening: Roman Polanski (no member of the crew of the film "J ' accuses ”was ultimately not present). A long passage between degumming at the Kalashnikov and the desire not to want to assume everything alone: “Kékonfait avec Popol?…. Kékonfait with Atchoum? It's 43 years after the facts (Editor's note: rape of which the filmmaker is accused) , I'm not going to settle that. Me at the time I was 3 years old, I am in Lyon, he is in Hollywood doing what he wanted to do ... I am not a judge of enforcement of sentences. "
We thought then the valves on "J'accuse" finished ... We had not seen anything yet: "I decided that Atchoum was not big enough to shade French cinema ... I ask you to applaud the ten nominations for Portrait of the young girl on fire ”, highlighting the 100% female team in Céline Sciamma's film. Then to quote all the favorites of the year by accompanying them with a summary sentence, which began thus: " Thanks to God , pedophilia in the church ... I accuse , pedophilia in the 1970s." your tone was given.
Césars: a hundred people demonstrate in front of the Salle Pleyel