First, the very silky voice of Benjamin Biolay, who cannot be seen, conductor of the evening, who introduces the mistress of ceremonies, Marina Foïs, into a jazzy club atmosphere.
It is she who must light the fuse.
Facing the vertigo of an almost empty room of 150 people in the Olympia transformed into a tea room, with pedestal tables and subdued lamps.
It will be a fireworks display.
In a shimmering short dress, the actress born with the Robin Hoods wears a small yellow bag: “She's boring, Foresti, she always leaves her dog's poop lying around.
"
So much for the presentations.
It's called breaking the ice, dropping the jacket.
Or rather cut a suit.
A pyrotechnic verb, between anger, humor and heartbreak.
"The Covid, that bitch, it kills the old and the fat.
"" We closed the halls to open the churches, because we are a secular country.
"Roselyne Bachelot, the Minister of Culture, who had traveled, must not have seen the salvo arrive:" The minister is preparing her book
My life in pink
which will be available on Amazon with her gorgonzola recipes.
"A joke, then a slap:" What to do when you no longer have confidence in your supervising minister?
"
"We can't wait to see you!"
The masterful speech of @foismarina, mistress of ceremony, at the opening of # César2021.
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But it was not over as the cup is full, with a scathing allusion to the career of the politician: "Why, me, to present this evening, with my five nominations and no awards?"
It's masochistic, like a pharmacist at Culture in the midst of a pandemic.
»The shock.
That of a deeply disappointed environment.
Sadness, finally, when Marina Foïs addressed the absent audience to express her desire to go to the cinema: “I want to laugh with strangers.
It misses to die.
I even miss your popcorns.
"
There was everything, rage and abandonment, strangled laughter.
Obviously, Roschdy Zem, the president of the ceremony, who succeeded him, could not be more consensual.
It was his role.
This tradition at least has been respected: the master of ceremonies sets the fire, the president extinguishes it.
“We left a little angry last year.
Well, not me.
"Fairly general remarks, on the cinema" which continued to exist in the storm ".
Multicolored and intergenerational Caesars
But the Césars are all the same, first and foremost, prizes, and the first awards clearly marked the desire to salute modernity, diversity and daring.
Isabelle Huppert presented a 14-year-old teenager, Fathia Youssouf, the César for best female hope for “Mignonnes”, a beautiful story of emancipation.
"I would like to tell all people of my age to believe in their dream", launched the young actress before Marina Foïs accompanies her with "You take your Caesar ... and your mask.
"
Jean-Pascal Zadi won the statuette of the best male hope for the jubilant “Simply Black”, a committed and hilarious film.
He greeted all his black predecessors and the great thinker of decolonization, Frantz Fanon: “This is not my mission.
It is everyone's mission, equality.
"
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The César for the First film was awarded to “Deux”, by Filippo Meneghetti, with Martine Chevalier and Barbara Sukowa, on the difficult coming out of two retired women.
Another form of engagement.
At 10 pm, it was already a lot of emotions, including the appearance of the overwhelming face of Jean-Louis Trintignant, without a mask, at home, in video, designating with a smile always so irresistible each named by his first name.
Jean-Louis, the ultimate class.