Caesar 2022: triumph of “lost illusions”

The 47th ceremony rewarded the film of Xavier Giannoli, as the survey of the patterns of rooms had predicted.

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Fortunately, there were comedians in the Olympia Hall, in Paris, to give the change, “celebrate” cinema and not to make too much gray in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine by the Russia. Friday, February 25, the 47 e ceremony of Caesars took place in a climate of joy retained. Difficult to do otherwise: “Tonight, we think of the Ukrainians,” said the Ceremonial Master, Antoine de Caunes.

Great accustomed to Caesars, which he presented ten editions, the facilitator kept his sense of humor, moving a console – and his microphone! – On the nose and beard of a winner whose litany of thanks was a little long. One could not miss another beard, a silver lame, that of the saxophonist Thomas de Pourquery, leader of a small orchestra placed on the stage and also master of the time, sending the music to point out that the hour revolves and to shorten .

Similarly, the presence of the Australo-American Actress Cate Blanchett, awarded a Caesar of Honor for all of his career in the hands of Isabelle Huppert, has brought a bright note to this evening a little Longuget (almost four hours) and without much surprise. She too had a word for Ukraine: “It’s hard to think or talk about something else than what happens in Ukraine but, as Antoine said, we are here for Celebrate cinema. “

Tribute to Gaspard Ulliel

Would the Caesars now read in the “Marc” of the operators? It has been a few years since the organized survey (upstream of the ceremony) with the patterns of the rooms by the professional magazine Total Screen appears as a good barometer or a reflection of the votes of the members of the Academy (4,363 in 2022 ) From February 22, the results of this investigation were disclosed to the press, announcing lost illusions, Xavier Giannoli, like the favorite of this edition – with no less than eight prices, including those of the best film, the best male hope … Similarly, Aline, from Valérie Lemercier, was announced as another great success with, at the key, the price of the best actress for the director herself, who interprets the title role (Céline Dion, Alina God).

In fact, the electric adaptation of the novel of Balzac has received seven trophies: best movie, better adaptation, best photography, best second role for a male actor (Vincent Lacoste, Xavier Dolan in the same film being he too in the Race!), Benjamin neighbor in the role of Lucien de Rubemper receiving that of the best male hope. And Valérie Lemercier won the best actress price. What is this flair of the patterns of the halls? “I think the operators have become real cinephiles!”, Answered Richard Patry, the boss of the powerful national federation of French cinemas, crossed in the Hall of Olympia before the opening of the ceremony. And add that at the level of the Academy, operators represent only 10% of voters.

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