The César ceremony will take place on February 24 and two films have already stood out: “L’Innocent” by Louis Garrel, and “La Nuit du 12” by Dominik Moll.
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La detective comedy The Innocent by Louis Garrel and the thriller The Night of 12 by Dominik Moll, retracing the impossible investigation into a feminicide, are at the top of the nominations for the 48are Caesar, which are to be awarded on February 24. With 11 and 10 nominations respectively, these two feature films are in the lead, ahead of Cédric Klapisch’s film on the reconstruction of a classical dancer (In Body), and pacification with Benoît Magimel, nine nominations each.
Presented at Cannes, where it won over critics before bringing together more than 700,000 spectators in theaters, The Innocent mixes comedy and heist film inspired by the family history of Louis Garrel. The film is in the lead for the evening of February 24, with 11 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Garrel, and is the favorite to succeed lost illusions, last year’s winner with seven trophies. The child of the ball who has become a star of French auteur cinema rubs shoulders in the best actor category with his elders Jean Dujardin (for November on the attacks at the end of 2015), but also Benoît Magimel (for pacification d’Albert Serra), in the running for a double after his Caesar last year.
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On the actress side, Virginie Efira, nominated for See Paris again where she also shares the poster with him, witnessing an attack in a Parisian brasserie, has every chance, notably against Adèle Exarchopoulos (I don’t give a fuck) or Laure Calamy (Full time). The Night of 12, with ten nominations including the best film and the best direction too, as well as the best male hope (Bastien Bouillon, in a police role), is also very well placed. A prize would allow its director, Dominik Moll, to return to the front of the stage twenty-two years after his César for best director for Harry, a friend who wishes you welland would celebrate a fiction on a very contemporary issue, machismo and violence against women.
Among the other feature films in the running for best picture, In Bodyby Cédric Klapisch, the story of a classical dancer (Marion Barbeau, selected for the best female hope) who rebuilds after an injury.
Towards an increase in audiences?
The Césars, regularly pointed out for their interpersonality, will not necessarily silence these critics this year: In Body is the only film among the favorites to have gathered more than 1 million spectators (1.3 million). November and Simone. The journey of the centurymore popular with more than 2 million admissions, had to settle for seven and two nominations each. READ ALSODanièle Thompson: “The screenplay is the sinews of film wars”Unless there is a last-minute revelation, the Academy should on the other hand save itself a new crisis on the attitude to adopt in the face of artists suspected or involved in cases of sexual or gender-based violence. Gérard Depardieu or Ary Abittan, presumed innocent by the courts but indicted for rapes which they deny, are not named, any more than Sofiane Bennacer. The presentation will be provided collectively by nine masters and mistresses of ceremonies, from Emmanuelle Devos to Eye Haïdara, via Alex Lutz and Ahmed Sylla, with the heavy task of reassembling audiences that were still catastrophic last year.