Weakened by two sad editions, the Caesars are playing their all-out and their honor tonight

Double mission impossible this year for the Caesars.

Commit a faultless performance on the prize list and on stage for a ceremony without hiccups and without controversy after two sulphurous and political years, marked by the rebellion of Adèle Haenel against Polanski and the bloody striptease of Corinne Masiero.

The militant stances taken by the great family of French cinema may have gone around the world but were not to the liking of the spectators – only 1.6 million faithful –, the pundits in the middle or the broadcaster and partner. of the gala, Canal +.

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The 47th Cesar evening is due to begin Friday evening at 9 p.m. at the Olympia and on Canal +, under the aegis of Antoine de Caunes.

The animator is a master of ceremonies experienced in the thankless exercise of room steward in this long tunnel of more than three hours of rewards and more or less inspired speeches.

On the program in theory, some glitter anyway, with the Honorary Cesar given to Australian actress Cate Blanchett by Isabelle Huppert.

Hence the need to behave well.

Can we imagine the Australian actress, symbol of Hollywood glamor and sublime femme fatale in Guillermo del Toro's

, contemplating without blinking or shuddering a sketch based on dog poo like the one proposed last year by Marina Foïs, director of orchestra of an evening without panache and without class?

It will also be necessary to pay a tribute to the height of the disappeared of the year in the forefront of which, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Gaspard Ulliel.

The watchword that circulates under the coat of the guests is also

In “C à vous”, on France 5, the highly respected Pierre Lescure insists:

After two years of health crisis where the State and the CNC have always responded in terms of subsidies, the above-ground jeremiads are going badly.

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The Venice and Cannes double

For the prize list, French cinema can boast of a prosperous year with the double palme d'or and lion d'or.

The jurors of the Cannes and Venice festivals respectively crowned the dystopian and bodied fable

by Julia Ducournau and the committed story of a clandestine abortion in France by De Gaulle

by Audrey Diwan.

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and

are full of nominations for the César 2022, disappointment for

Despite this historic and international recognition, these two feature films, which greatly feminize the best director category, are content with a modest four nominations each.

Friday's favorite is Xavier Giannoli's grandiose and acidic re-reading of Balzac.

His

totals the unprecedented number of 15 quotes.

Behind the adaptation of the great novel, the members of the Academy placed the rock opera

by Leos Carax (11 nominations), presented at the Cannes Film Festival.

American star Adam Driver is in the running for the César for best actor for this film, alongside Benoît Magimel, Vincent Macaigne and Pierre Niney.

To complete this top three,

, Valérie Lemercier's phantasmagorical biopic devoted to Céline Dion, in which this big fan of the Quebec star gives the best of herself, collects ten nominations, including that of best director and best actress.

She faces Léa Seydoux or Laure Calamy, again named after winning the title last year.

Onoda

in ambush

In the queen category of "best film",

and

will try to keep Cédric Jimenez's thriller

at bay , on police excesses in the northern districts of Marseille,

by Audrey Diwan,

of Catherine Corsini on the France of yellow vests as well as

by Arthur Harari.

Discovered at the Directors' Fortnight in Cannes, this story about a Japanese soldier hidden in the jungle for thirty years, refusing Japanese capitulation at the end of the Second World War surprised everyone by winning four César nominations.

This little thumb could derail the heavyweights.

It imposed itself at the critics' union prizes by winning the flagship trophy for best French film.

also triumphed at the Louis-Delluc Prize.

Another barometer ceremony, the Lights, awarded by the international press, for its part praised

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crowned with the Louis-Delluc prize

The suitors and the opportunity to write the history of cinema by crowning, for the second time only, a best woman director are therefore not lacking.