(Paris) The French film Anatomy of a fallPalme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, continues its extraordinary journey with numerous nominations for the Césars, the French cinema awards, after having booked its ticket to the Oscars in Hollywood.
Its director, Justine Triet, and two female filmmakers are also selected for the “best director” category, a year after the controversy arising from the absence of female representation for this distinction at the César.
Anatomy of a fall is, however, beaten by another film by a head, The animal kingdom by Thomas Cailley, in the César nominations. This fantastic film which takes place in the near future, where humans have begun to mutate into animal creatures, garnered 12 nominations on Wednesday, notably for “best film”, “best actor” for Romain Duris and “best direction” .
The day after its five nominations including “best film” and “best direction” on Tuesday at the Oscars, prestigious Hollywood awards, Anatomy of a falla dissection of the balance of power within a couple of artists, qualified in eleven categories for the French Césars.
This performance confirms the success of this 2h32 film, which retraces the trial of a woman accused of having killed her husband, with the couple’s visually impaired boy as the only witness, and which has already enabled Justine Triet to become in Last May, the third female director in history to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
In addition to “best film” and “best actress” for German Sandra Hüller, 45, Justine Triet, also 45, is selected in the “best director” category. This trophy has only been won once in the history of the Césars by a woman, Tonie Marshall, for Venus Beauty (institute) in 2000.
But this year, two other directors are nominated in this category: Catherine Breillat, 75, for Last summera story of incest in a bourgeois environment and Jeanne Herry with I will always see your faces, choral film on justice. They are in competition with two directors, Cédric Kahn and Thomas Cailley.
At the beginning of January an investigation was opened into an accusation of rape against the actor who plays the husband in Anatomy of a fallSamuel Theis, also a director, after the filing of a complaint by a 27-year-old technician, for facts which allegedly occurred last summer, during the filming of the film I swear that he realized.
In total, 3,375 members of the Académie des César voted, or 72% of them. They now have one month to choose the winners, before the ceremony takes place on February 23 at the Olympia in Paris.
An honorary César will be awarded to American-British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, director ofOppenheimer.
The evening will also be a baptism of fire for the new Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati. The Caesar ceremony is often the occasion for political or social demands.