A consecration for the “frenchie” of the boards. Sunday April 25, 2021 was held between Paris and Los Angeles the 93rd Academy Awards. An exceptional device since for the first time since its creation in 1927, the small golden statuettes were offered in small groups with an improvised red carpet at Union Station. For the six French artists nominated, the appointment was given in Boulogne-Billancourt in duplex, on an open-air terrace whose best moments were broadcast on Canal + between two and five in the morning. In the middle of the night, the French director Florian Zeller, received his first Oscar for his film The Father, adaptation of his own play The father, created in 2012.
1. Florian Zeller, the most played French in the world
At just twenty-two years old, after several published novels, Florian Zeller changes hats and puts on his first play, The other in 2004. Eight years later, he directed The father, a moving work which traces the story of an eighty-eight year old man suffering from Alzheimer’s disease who will see his memories fly away one after the other. One of “best pieces of the 21st century” according to’Evening Standard. Almost ten years later, The father has been adapted around the world, from Australia to Canada, including China, Brazil and Japan. In 2015, as revealed France Info, he is the most performed French author in the world.
2. An extraordinary school career
Holder of the baccalaureate at seventeen and professor at Sciences Po at twenty-one when he had just finished his studies there, Florian Zeller’s curriculum vitae has something to impress. So much so that the young man often had the impression of missing out on his youth. Asked by Catherine Ceylac on September 16, 2006 in Tea or coffee, the young author confided in this sometimes painful feeling: “It was a problem at one point to be serious … I sometimes had the feeling of growing up upside down, of having skipped a stage, perhaps that of adolescence, and of learning year after year, to rejuvenate “. At just thirty years old, Florian Zeller had already given birth to four novels, four plays, an opera and a short film.
3. Married to actress Marine Delterme
Florian Zeller has always remained very discreet about his private life, and has always denied telling his own story in his books. However, he readily admits, it is his various love stories that gave birth to his passion for literature. A passion he shares with the woman of his life, Marie Delterme, star of the series Alice Nevers, the judge is a woman. The two young actors got married on June 5, 2010 and together they have a son, Roman, born in December 2008. On April 25, 2021, during his coronation for The Father at the 2021 Oscars, Florian Zeller paid tribute to him: “Thank you to my wife Marine for supporting me, with all her love and all her patience!”
4. A collaboration with Christophe
In 2008, Florian Zeller took part in Christophe’s album, Love who we are, in which he notably wrote the words of Tonight, tonight and Tell him about me. A little boy’s dream for those who listened to the interpreter of Blue words in the midst of his sleeplessness. Asked about his passion for the singer in IT in 2006, he confided this: “He wears pink silk jackets, he’s a gypsy and, at the same time, a dandy. And he’s a friend. With him, we could also redefine what dandyism is: a way of being totally free from the rest of the world, the opposite of snobbery. Christophe is someone who never sleeps. That too must bring us closer. ” Two years later, his name appears on his idol’s album: “I wrote him texts. He fixes the beauty in his melodies. He is a character who is not afraid to displease, he has a madness that sets him apart”, he explained to Marie Claire the same year.
5. Weakened by an illness in his childhood
During its passage in Tea or coffee September 16, 2006, Florian Zeller had revealed that his childhood had been marked by an illness which wasted his life for a long time: asthma. To such an extent this pathology prevented him from having a normal adolescent life: “It was in proportions that were very heavy. It was almost the experience of death. Hospitalization etc. It’s so brutal that it shakes the being up a bit. We come out unscathed, but not completely. There is a part of innocence that is lost when we face the extreme fragility of life “, he confided with emotion. Overwhelming and well-chosen words, which today make all the talent of the world-renowned French author.
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