The things we say, the things we do
by Emmanuel Mouret: named thirteen times.
Summer 85
, by François Ozon: nominated twelve times.
The first will get an accessit: the César for best supporting actress, crowning the performance of Emilie Duquenne.
The second will leave empty-handed, for the benefit of
Adieu les cons
, Albert Dupontel, who won seven times, notably in the categories Best film, Best director and Best screenplay.
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The two directors are not at their first disappointments.
Nominated many times, including
Eight Women
and
Grace to God
, François Ozon has never won the slightest award from the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques.
Ditto for Emmanuel Mouret, despite the nice folding seat received by his actress last night.
However, the two productions were big favorites at this 46th ceremony.
The things we say, the things we do
, a melodramatic romance featuring Niels Scheider and Camélia Jordana, delivers delicious dialogues.
The love stories told appeal to the viewer's memories as much as to their desire to love and be loved.
The scenario is simple, the characters complex, the poetic realization, in the direct line of
Mademoiselle de Joncquières
, film named in the category best adaptation to Caesar in 2019.
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The things we say, the things we do
: love in all its seams
Summer 85
evokes our first emotions.
Teenage passion, the spiral of dependence, the desire to make the loved one suffer, all wrapped up in a brutal and cruel ardor.
Félix Lefebvre and Benjamin Voisin encamp young boys haunted and fascinated by death, mad about each other, whose loves will tire one and hurt the other.
The film, adapted from the novel
La danse du coucou
, a novel read by Ozon when he was only seventeen, germinated for a long time in the mind of the filmmaker, who nevertheless remains here with this new story in his area of comfort.
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These odes to disappointed love did not know how to touch the sensitivity, often on edge, of the jurors of the Academy.
Ozon and Mouret will not care.
Because how everyone knows, it is the public, ultimately, who awards the most beautiful Caesars: a box office success.
