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Césars: "J'accuse" team boycott the ceremony

2020-02-28T16:01:13.062Z


After Roman Polanski, producer Alain Goldman and the entire film crew announced their absence.


If "J'accuse", nominated 12 times for the Césars, obtains a statuette this evening, it will be neither its director Roman Polanski, nor its producer Alain Goldman, nor its pleiad of stars, Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner, who will come and get it. According to our information, it is a figure less known to the general public but very influential in French cinema, Sidonie Dumas, director of Gaumont, distributor of the film, who will recover them.

Indeed, this Friday, a few hours from the ceremony, and the day after the announcement of the absence of Roman Polanski, Alain Goldman announced in turn Friday in a statement to AFP that he would not would not say: "We have noticed an escalation of inappropriate and violent language and behavior. The Minister of Culture himself, representing the authority of the State, authorized himself a declaration condemning in advance and without knowing it the result of a professional, independent and secret vote, "he adds.

"An opinion court"

"We cannot accept that the democratic vote of the 4.313 members of the Academy be called into question by a court of opinion", he says again, underlining that "France is a state of law". "For all these reasons, we therefore decided not to be present at the César 2020 ceremony," he said, hinting that the entire technical and artistic team of the film could be absent from the ceremony.

Information that we are able to confirm.

Friday morning, the Minister of Culture Franck Riester estimated on France Info that a César for the best director for Roman Polanksi would be “a bad symbol compared to the necessary awareness that we must all have in the fight against sexual violence and sexist ”.

The 45th Cesar ceremony is held Friday evening under high tension, against a background of expected reforms - notably on parity - and strong protests against the appointments of "J'accuse" by Roman Polanski, targeted by several rape accusations and still being prosecuted by the American justice system for illegal sexual relations with a minor in 1977.

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Source: leparis

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