Highlights
- It has been a long time since French cinema has trembled as much at the approach of a Cesar ceremony.
- Roman Polanski's film crew ("J'accuse"), Jean Dujardin in mind, chose not to go to Salle Pleyel. Adèle Haenel, on the front line of the #MeToo movement in cinema ”, will be there.
- Florence Foresti, mistress of ceremonies, will have a lot of work to do to lighten the atmosphere while critics of the lack of parity and diversity on screen also fall down.
- Beginning of the ceremony at 9 p.m.
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7:55 p.m.. Cocktail and tear gas ... Everyone sneezes in the Pleyel hall where the guests arrive for the cocktail. Several feminist demonstrators - from the “Colleuses” collective - were arrested outside the room. Some had launched smoke bombs, and the police responded with tear gas.
7:50 p.m.. An exceptional vintage despite the controversies. Here is a jumble of a list of critically acclaimed films this year that may be among the final winners:
- "Les Misérables" by Ladj Ly.
- "Roubaix, une lumière" by Arnaud Despleschin.
- "Thanks to God" by François Ozon.
- “Exceptional” by the duo Nakache-Toledano
- "J'accuse", the director's film at the heart of the Roman Polanski controversy.
- "In the name of the earth", by François Bergeron.
19.45. Adèle Haenel, the one by whom everything started. The #MeToo wave in French cinema is her. The young woman filed a complaint for sexual assault and sexual harassment against the director Christophe Ruggia. Facts that would have happened when she was a minor.
7:40 p.m.. The crisis and after? Once the ceremony is over, the time will come to modernize the Academy. Diversity and parity on the screen, transparency of the authorities ... There are many projects.
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7:35 p.m.. First tensions . Security forces have surrounded the area, but some activists are trying to walk the red carpet. The demonstrators notably launched slogans hostile to the filmmaker like "rapist Polanski, guilty cinema, accomplice audience". The director, named twelve times for his film "J'accuse", chose not to come this evening.
César: against Roman Polanski, demonstrators try to return to the red carpet pic.twitter.com/Mp7IkP3t4y
- BFM Paris (@BFMParis) February 28, 202019.30. A hundred feminist activists in front of the Salle Pleyel . As announced, a group of activists shouted their anger at the entrance to the Salle des Césars. "We want to challenge the film industry who can support Adèle Haenel, who denounces facts of sexual assault and, at the same time, with incredible hypocrisy, says Roman Polanski, "explained Céline Piques, spokesperson for Dare Feminism.
7:20 p.m.. Good evening and welcome to the Parisien website . We will follow together the 45th ceremony of the Caesars, an edition highly anticipated for various reasons.