A year on the cheap, really?
This is not really the feeling that we had, within the Culture department of the Parisian, when writing down on paper our dream list for the next Césars ceremony which will be held this Friday evening at the Olympia (at follow on Canal + at 9 p.m.).
The list of virtual laureates on which we have agreed does not lack style or panache.
So yes, there were fewer films on the starting line in this dreary year 2020. But those who managed to slip into the starting blocks deserved the arguments, counter-arguments that we put forward to defend our darlings .
And our winners are ...
Best actress
Virginie Efira.
There was a match, and it is little to say it, with Laure Calamy, solar as a donkey trainer in the pretty comedy-western "Antoinette in the Cévennes".
But it is Virginie Efira who wins over the wire.
We drink to the health of Suze, his touching character in "Adieu les cons", which allows him to decline 50 shades of emotion, from laughter to tears, from gentleness to violence.
Efira controls its effects.
It could also have been sacred for "Police", another big role assumed this year.
In the early 2000s, the Belgian presented "New Star" on the small screen.
She became so on the big one.
Best actor
Jonathan Cohen.
This is the only category in which our votes were broken down over all the applicants, from Lambert Wilson ("De Gaulle") to Niels Schneider ("The things we say, the things we do") in passing by Albert Dupontel ("Farewell the idiots") and Sami Bouajila ("A son").
It is finally the troublemaker Jonathan Cohen, "Huge" in the film of the same name, who wins our pompom.
An ace of sacred laughter at the end of this gloomy year, that would be a nice snub.
And a nice reward for a comedian who, in addition to this role of a man ready to do anything to become a father, also shone in "the Flame", a series with a three-star cast on Canal +.
Emilie Dequenne and Vincent Macaigne in “The things we say, the things we do”, favorite of the Césars.
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Best Supporting Actress
Emilie Dequenne.
And suddenly, she melted our hearts.
In "The Things We Say, The Things We Do" (available on VOD), in which she is sublime in restraint, Emilie Dequenne takes advantage of a key scene, at the end of the film, to sign one of the most beautiful performances of actress who is.
It is poignant there, heartbreaking with an economy of effects which makes us, to us, of the effect.
Also cited by our voters: Fanny Ardant for her role as mother in "DNA" and Noémie Lvovsky, priceless as a good sister in "La Bonne Epouse".
Best Supporting Actor
Vincent Macaigne.
We could have rewarded Benjamin Lavernhe, really funny as a fickle husband in "Antoinette", or Louis Garrel, solid in "DNA".
But it is Vincent Macaigne, teddy bear enlisted in the waltz of feelings of "Things we say ...", who convinced us the most.
The opportunity to reward Emmanuel Mouret's choral film which offered such a beautiful setting to its actors.
Mélissa Guers, the revelation of “the Girl with a bracelet”, by Stéphane Demoustier.
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Most promising Actress
Mélissa Guers.
A real revelation unearthed ... thanks to a small ad on Facebook.
In "The Girl with the Bracelet", an excellent legal thriller released in February, Mélissa Guers bursts the screen, complex in her role as a young woman suspected of murder.
This young trained gymnast had never walked on a movie set.
It immediately convinces the jury cinephiles.
Verdict: our Caesar!
Best male hope
Benjamin Voisin and Félix Lefebvre.
It would be terribly unfair to separate them.
The two actors of the incandescent “Summer 85” each deserve this award.
Solar lovers in François Ozon's film, the two young men unveil a poetic sensuality that explodes in a nightclub scene in which, with Walkman headphones on his head, one dances on an old Rod Stewart tube while the other sways to a different tempo.
Two scores, one emotion.
Best achievement
Albert Dupontel.
Some have highlighted the delicate art of the exploration in love of Emmanuel Mouret.
Others praised Maïwenn's talent as director of actors.
But it was Albert Dupontel who made us all agree, he who signs with “Adieu les cons” a poetic and spectacular punch film, dark and colorful, harsh and tender.
It would be "stupid" to miss it.
Best first film
"Simply black".
When theaters reopened in the spring, it was the first film that got us going.
False documentary on an actor (Jean-Pascal Zidi, also co-director) who takes it into his head to mount a march to denounce the invisibility of blacks in French society, “Tout Simply Noir” succeeds in making us laugh ( a lot), while not obscuring any annoying subject.
All with a damn powerful cast: Claudia Tagbo, Fary, Fabrice Eboué, Eric Judor, Soprano, Fadily Camara, Ramzy Bedia, Mathieu Kassovitz ... A really (im) relevant film.
Best film
"Goodbye idiots".
I can't wait for the theaters to reopen their doors. We can't wait for this film to resume its adventure after only one week on the bill, and for us to be “only” 700,000 privileged to have had the time to see this declaration of love in the cinema. “Goodbye idiots” is the last film we saw before the curtains close this fall. And it's an understatement to say that we can't wait to relive such an emotion, so much the tribulations of this trio of life's cripples (played by Albert Dupontel, Virginie Efira and Nicolas Marié) gave us real cinema happiness. .
