After the "stupor", the reaction.
Monday evening, the 164 members of the new general assembly of the Caesars, elected by the 4,313 voters for the statuettes, learned that 18 members of the old assembly were joining their ranks: a clause in the new statutes of the Caesars, voted on July 9, allowed the "old" to be automatically renewed on condition of expressing the wish in writing before July 31.
However, among these 18 "historical members", one counted Alain Terzian the former boss of the Césars and… Roman Polanski.
If the presence of the director accused of rape by a dozen women cringe, several newly elected members expressed their anger at the very principle of retaining former members, seeing there a lack of democracy, transparency ... and an attack on absolute parity.
Indeed, the parity of the assembly was shattered since out of the 18 "old" returned, there were only two women.
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In a forum sent this Thursday to AFP, 120 of the 164 newly elected members of the general assembly declared that they would request from their first meeting, on September 29, a modification of the statutes of the Caesars.
"There are therefore clearly two weights, two measures, between the" historic members ", appointed for life and far from any parity consideration, and the elected members who had, for this, to write a profession of faith, then be elected for four years, with strict respect for gender parity, they say in this text.
It is all unpleasant and produces anger.
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The 120 newly elected reject the hypothesis of a collective resignation: "We will not leave our place vacant", they assure in the gallery.
The gallery
“We have just been elected as members of the new General Assembly of the APC (Association for the Promotion of Cinema), in charge of organizing the Césars.
It was with amazement that we discovered Monday evening, at the same time as the proclamation of the results of the vote, the list of 18
historical members
(out of the 45 members of the old association) who asked to keep their mandate of member.
This list has been established since the end of July, the date on which the members of the Association, governed by the old statutes, had to volunteer to retain their mandate.
However, it had never been made public until this day.
It is little to say that we are astonished by it.
This lack of transparency seems harmful to us.
It throws a veil of opacity, hardly conducive to the confidence necessary for a new governance.
Why not have published this list, which was nevertheless known, before the elections?
How can we not feel betrayed not to have known the names of these
historic members
, statutorily appointed for life, and to whom we are going to sit?
Even though some of them were clearly disowned last February.
At the same time, we discovered that the General Assembly of the APC, which was to be strictly equal, no longer is, since of these 18
historic members
, only two women, including the current president, Margaret Menegoz, wanted remain a member of the association.
There are therefore clearly two weights, two measures, between the
historic members
, appointed for life and far from any parity consideration, and the elected members who had, for this, to write a profession of faith, then to be made. elect for four years, with strict respect for gender parity.
It is all unpleasant and produces anger.
Among us, voices were raised to call for a collective resignation when we had all just been elected.
But this collective resignation is not, in our eyes, the adequate response.
We will not leave our place vacant.
We are deeply attached to the Caesars and their mission of general interest for the entire profession.
We want broad reforms to make the Caesars more alive, more joyful, more eclectic, more open to the world, more representative of all the components of French cinema, both in terms of cinematographic forms, professions, and diversity of origins.
We will therefore be present at the first general assembly on September 29.
We will elect board and office members, and co-chairs, who represent these welcome changes.
Then we will get down to drafting new statutes so that they are consistent with our aspiration for a new governance that is truly revitalized.
We are freshly elected from an (almost) parity and democratic assembly.
We will bring it to life.
"
Signatories
Interpretation:
Souad Amidou, Marianne Basler, Laetitia Dosch, Marina Foïs, Guillaume Gallienne, Ann Gisel Glass, Corinne Masiero, Bernard Menez, Aurélien Recoing, Antoine Reinartz, Maud Wyler
Director:
Bertrand Bonello, Philippe Claudel, Catherine Corsini, Olivier Ducastel, Phlippe Faucon, Pascale Ferran, Cédric Klapisch, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Radu Mihaileanu, Dorothée Sebbagh
Screenplay:
Andrea Bescond, Agnès de Sacy, Olivier Gorce, Alex Métayer, Julie Peyr, Juliette Sales, Christopher Thomson, Alice Vial
Musical composition:
Éric Neveux, Marco Prince, Béatrice Thiriet
Costumes:
Catherine Boisgontier, Madeline Fontaine, Pierre-Yves Gayraud, Igor Alexis Wojtowicz, Khadija Zeggaï
Sets:
Benoit Barouh, Chloé Cambournac, François Dupertuis, Riton Dupire-Clément, Anne Seibel
Editing:
Sandie Bompar, Bertrand Collard, Sophie Reine
Photography:
Yves Cape, Nathalie Durand, Agnès Godard, Jeanne Lapoirie, Gilles Porte
Sound:
Lucien Balibar, Claudine Nougaret, Mélissa Petitjean, Marianne Roussy
Make-up and hairstyle:
Chantal Leothier, Christophe Oliveira
Special and visual effects:
Cédric Fayote, Roxane Fechner, Francine Lévy, Mathias Weber
Other technical collaborations:
Stéphane Bourgoin, Nathalie Chéron, Daniel Delume, Constance Demontoy, Tatiana Vialle
Production:
Éric Altmayer, Alain Attal, Saïd Ben Saïd, Caroline Bonmarchand, Emmanuel Chaumet, Bénédicte Couvreur, Olivier Delbosc, Alice Girard, Judith Lou Lévy, Marie-Ange Luciani, Marc Missonnier, Miléna Poylo, Carole Scotta, Hugo Sélignac, Fabienne Servan Schreiber, Patrick Sobelman,
Artistic agents and press
officers
:
Sébastien Cauchon, Rosalie Cimino, Cécile Felsenberg, Elisabeth Tanner
Distribution and exportation:
Daniela Elster, Alexandre Mallet-Guy, Mathieu Robinet, Ariane Toscan du Plantier, Agathe Valentin
Exhibition in theaters:
Christine Beauchemin-Flot, William Benedetto, Béatrice Boursier, Gautier Labrusse
Animation:
Priscilla Bertin, Damien Brunner, Jérémy Clapin, Marc du Pontavice, Pascale Faure, Sébastien Laudenbach, Judith Nora, Hélène Vayssières
Documentary:
Nicolas Bréviaire, William Jéhannin, Elisabeth Pawlowski, Jan Vasak, Rebecca Houzel
Short film:
Jacky Évrard, Ludovic Henry, Valérie Leroy, Justin Pechberty, Pauline Seigland
Technical industries:
Nicolas Naegelen, Tommaso Vergallo
Associated professions:
Frédérique Bredin, Patrick Fabre, Isabelle Giordano, Hugo Rubini, Vincent Tolédano