The acceptance speech by French playwright Florian Zeller will be remembered for a long time, live from the 93rd Academy Awards.
Behind him, it was not American night.
What does it matter!
It was just like ... Bow tie, hair in the wind, blond beard, ecstatic smile and a tuxedo de rigueur, in the background of the young forty-something, the city lights acted as a big Hollywood screen.
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Florian Zeller: "My meeting with Anthony Hopkins seemed to me the most important of my life!"
And yet, the subject of the film
The Father,
which has just won the statuette for best actor for Anthony Hopkins and best adaptation, did not have the immediate assets to conquer the Academy of Oscars at the time of the #metoo movement or of the #blacklivesmatter wave.
The playwright was fully aware of this:
"Obviously, my film does not respond to this more politicized reading grid,"
he replied to
Le Figaro.
when his film was nominated for an Oscar.
The Father
is a film centered on human emotions.
He doesn't pretend to be some standard
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