What to expect from the 50th edition of the César

The César put the small dishes in the big ones for their 50th edition Friday February 28 with Catherine Deneuve as president of the evening and as favorites two popular successes. With 14 nominations, The Comte de Monte-Cristo Favorite, after having delighted 9.4 million spectators, becoming the second biggest success of the year in France. He competes with Love phew dE Gilles Lellouche (4.9 million spectators in France) with 13 quotes.

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The coronation of one of these films, or comedy A fanfare With Benjamin Lavernhe and Pierre Lottin, could help change the image of the Caesar Academy deemed sometimes disconnected from the public. Even if the biggest box of 2024 in France with 10.8 million spectators, A little extra thing D’Artus and his troop of disability actors will be satisfied with a single statuette, that of the best first film.

For the other big pretender, Emilia Pérez From Jacques Audiard, the suspense is whole. Visual and sound fireworks, this musical in Spanish on the gender transition of a Mexican drug trafficker, is well placed with 12 nominations. But nothing is going well. To the controversies in Mexico on the way in which Emilia Pérez represents violence linked to drug trafficking have been added revelations on former messages from the main actress, Karla Sofia Gascón on social networks. She describes Islam there as ” Infection household for humanity And mocks diversity in entertainment. What will be the impact on the voters of the César? If Karla Sofia Gason seems out of the game, her co-star Zoé Saldaña could snatch a Caesar from the best actress.

Other feature films could create surprise, as Mercyan author’s film at the more confidential audience of Alain Guiraudie, and Souleymane’s storyby Boris Lojkine, on the Parisian odyssey of a undocumented delivery man.

Pierre Niney, François Civil, Adèle Exarchopoulos …

Ces 50^e César will have a particular flavor: for the occasion, the presidency was offered to Catherine Deneuve, who was convinced. “” I’m going to go on stage for three minutes, this is not the moment I prefer, and then I will follow the ceremony “, She said to Monde. The popular stars named in the different categories, from Tahar Rahim, Pierre Niney and François Civil to Catherine Frot, Alain Chabat and Adèle Exarchopoulos, will they be enough to bring up the hearings of the evening, broadcast from Olympia from 8:45 pm on Canal+? Last year 1.86 million spectators followed the evening, a slight improvement, but still far from the 3.9 million viewers reached in 2012.

Jean-Pascal Zadi, best male hope 2021 for Simply black, presents the ceremony. As it is now custom, he will share the animation with a skewer of personalities, including Emmanuelle Béart, Cécile de France, Pio Marmaï, Raphaël Quenard or Justine Triet. The American star Julia Roberts and the director Franco-Greek Costa-Gavras must receive an honor César. The artists could also take advantage of the gallery to share their concerns about the budget cuts inflicted on culture or the threats that make artificial intelligence over creation.