Caesars | Benjamin Voisin and Anamaria Vartolomei crowned best hopes

(Paris) Benjamin Voisin for his role as a young poet mounted in Paris in lost illusions and Anamaria Vartolomei in The eventas a young student who decided to have an abortion in the 1960s, received the Césars for the best male and female hopefuls on Friday.

“I will do my best to” justify this hope in the coming years, launched Benjamin Voisin, 25, by thanking the director of lost illusions Xavier Giannoli for his “indecent generosity”.

“I will be forever grateful to you,” added on the stage of the Olympia the actor who already has around twenty TV movies, plays and feature films to his credit, including Summer 85 by François Ozon, his first major role and first nomination for the Césars, last year.

In lost illusionsadaptation of Balzac, he is the main character, Lucien de Rubempré, young provincial in love with literature, moved to Paris where his dreams will be shattered on the reality of society at the time of the Restoration.

Child of the ball, with a father professor at Cours Florent, of which he joined the benches in 2011, Benjamin Voisin continued his secondary studies in parallel. Five years later, he will go through the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. We then discover him on screen in the main role of Pridesa series of Arte on adolescence.

At 22, Anamaria Vartolomei won the César for best female hope with her first major role in The event, Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, directed by Audrey Diwan and adapted by Annie Ernaux. She thanked the director, moved to tears: “you are my most beautiful cinema encounter”.

“Your look so fair, so rare, your requirement, your benevolence”, she continued, this César “I owe it to you and I thank you”.

She plays in the film Anne, a pregnant student who decided to have an abortion in the 1960s in France.

“Me, I am lucky to have acquired rights, but which are still fragile. I defended her with the greatest possible interest, because it is terrible, she must choose between her studies, her career or her life. It is unfair ! “, she told AFP in 2021 on the Lido. Born in Romania in Bacau, Anamaria Vartolomei saw her parents leave for France at the age of two. When she was 6 years old, her parents earned enough money to bring her with them to Issy-les-Moulineaux.

It was at school that she discovered the theater before signing up for a distribution for a film by Eva Ionesco, My Little Princesswhere she will play at the age of 10.

Aissatou Diallo Sagna, caregiver and best supporting role

“This Caesar is ours, the caregivers! “: Aissatou Diallo Sagna, caregiver, received the prize for best actress in a supporting role, won under the nose and beard of actresses like Cécile de France or Jeanne Balibar, for her role in The divide.

Revelation of this film by Catherine Corsini on France at the time of “yellow vests”, this 38-year-old non-professional actress embodies her own role.

She plays Kim, omnipresent and very charismatic in the emergency department of a Parisian hospital where she works, during a tense night.

That night, dozens of “yellow vests” flock after a demonstration that degenerated: police violence, overwhelmed caregivers, lack of resources… So many subjects that this mother of three children knows well.

“This Caesar, he is ours, the caregivers. This is our reward, ”she rejoiced behind the scenes.

“Tuesday, I will be at my post,” she said. “I am a ‘wonder woman’: I can continue my job and also shoot. It is not incompatible, ”continued the nursing assistant, beaming.

“I have three children at home and bills to pay. I must continue to work. I am overwhelmed tonight: I have a new baby! This Caesar is like a baby. »

It was her colleagues who had discovered the announcement of the distribution on social networks. After a period of hesitation, she had finally decided to take the plunge.

“I have a big thought for my healthcare colleagues. They supported me from the start, as did the caregivers who were with me on the film, ”she said to reporters on Friday.