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Caesar ceremony: the Titanic of cultural exception

2021-03-13T11:01:48.232Z


At a time when the financial future of French cinema is being played out, the sector has ruined its image.


While the Caesar ceremony was wrecked, only the orchestra of Benjamin Biolay continued to play in tune.

After an extremely difficult year for the 7th Art and before crucial negotiations for the future of the sector, we hoped for a little dignity from the showcase of French cinema.

We were waiting for Antigone, we got the Bidochons.

This contest of bad jokes was distressing.

Forcing Nathalie Baye to repeat three times that she was a "mother of" is not only a lack of taste, it is a strategic mistake.

Nathalie Baye is an icon, a great artist and she embodies everything that founds the French cultural exception.

Cultural exception is an economic model

This magical concept for which the French State fought in order to include it in world trade agreements, is the last bulwark for the survival of French cinema.

The French cultural exception is a great idea, but it is above all an economic model.

It is in his name that the public authorities superimpose taxes, obligations, tax credits and subsidies in order to provide funding for films.

It is finally, in the name of the French cultural exception, that the government will force the American giants Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney + to participate in the financing of the cinema.

Netflix must finance cinema

We just have to hope that Reed Hastings, Bob Chapeck and Jeff Bezos, the bosses of Netflix, Disney and Amazon have not watched the Caesars!

Otherwise, they will not understand why, the French State would oblige them to support such a cinema!

And what about the directors of Canal + who broadcast the ceremony while thinking of reducing their financial commitment in the sector.

We have to be clear.

The cultural exception is the only way to keep afloat a system that invests 1 billion euros per year (excluding the Covid year) in the production of more than 250 films which only bring in 500 million euros in theaters.

In this case, we understand that the cultural exception deserves a little artistic elevation, a little glamor, a little mystery.

Source: lefigaro

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