The beginnings of a new era for the Caesars?
This is what is being played this Friday at 9 p.m. when the 46th Cesar ceremony opens.
A physical and not virtual edition to rise from its ashes after the nightmare of the 2020 edition, marked by scandals and anger, and to give a platform to the great family of French cinema, bloodless after months of pandemic and closure rooms.
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Roschdy Zem will
chair this crash-test-like edition for the Academy, and
Marina Foïs
will be the mistress of ceremonies, broadcast live on Canal +.
It will not be “a night to poke around.
We do not forbid anything.
It will be a balance between the first degree, the lightness, the seriousness, the political, the distanced, the absurd
”, promised the one who is supported in the writing by
Blanche Gardin
and
Laurent Lafitte
with feathers full of irony.
Benjamin Biolay
will provide musical direction.
An honorary Caesar will be awarded to the Splendid troupe and a long emotional sequence dedicated to the missing this year is expected.
Sparse rows with two PCR tests
Health crisis requires, the ranks of the
Olympia
will be sparse: 153 appointed and honored guests deprived of accompanying, 30 remitting without counting the technicians.
Deposited in gala attire at the corner of rue Scribe and boulevard des Capucines, those who will take their seats in the Olympia hall will enter in small groups at specific times and will have been tested twice, including this morning.
They will be asked to keep the mask, to avoid hugs.
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No preferential treatment for the Minister of Culture.
Roselyne Bachelot
will not be in the room but behind the scenes, with the new co-presidents of the Academy, Véronique Cayla and Eric Toledano.
It will be able to take live the pulse and the wrath of an exhausted profession, with no prospect of reopening cinemas and theaters whose occupations are multiplying.
Side stars, the ceremony which gathered last year more than 2 million televiewers, will align as remitters
Isabelle Huppert
,
Valérie Lemercier
or
Vincent Dedienne
.
But a priori not
Adèle Haenel
who declined the proposal to present a compression, a year after its shattering release to the cry of "Shame" at the announcement of the coronation of Roman Polanski as best director.
The only director in the running for the trophy for best mie on stage Maïwenn (
DNA
) will also be absent.
Three films are in the lead
Three films are in the lead.
The Things We Say, The Things We Do
by Emmanuel Mouret won the grand slam with thirteen nominations and won all the major categories: best film, best director, best screenplay, best actress for Camélia Jordana, best actor for Niels Schneider and best supporting roles for Émilie Dequenne and Vincent Macaigne.
Summer 85
by François Ozon and
Adieu les cons
by Albert Dupontel follow with twelve nominations.
Nominated for a sixth time in the best director category, François Ozon will hope with
Summer 85 to
leave with his first César.
The task will be more difficult for his two young stars
Benjamin Voisin
and
Félix Lefebvre
who risk dividing the votes among the best prospects.
Their partner
Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
will have to surpass in supporting roles
Fanny Ardant
(
ADN
) and two of the actresses of
The Good Wife
Yolande Moreau
and
Noémie Lowsky.
Even direct competition for the trophy for best actress opposing heroines
Two
,
idyll amid lesbian thriller that France has chosen to represent it at the Oscars.
Filippo Meneghetti's first film has four quotes.
Barbara Sukowa
and
Martine Chevallier
will therefore face
Camélia Jordana
,
Virginie Efira
(
Adieu les cons
) and the sparkling
Laure Calamy
from Antoinette in the Cévennes
.
Among men, the trophy will be played between
Jonathan Cohen
for the comedy
Énorme
,
Lambert Wilson
very serious of Gaulle in the biopic of the same name, the stripper
Albert Dupontel
,
Niels Schneider
and
Sami Bouajila
who has already had
the favors of the prizes
for
Un Fils.
Lights, delivered by the foreign press.