For his tenth and final presentation of the César 2022, Antoine de Caunes wants everything to go like clockwork. It must be said that the previous editions served as lessons for him even if he does not denigrate his colleagues. “I would not have liked to be in Marina Foïs’ place so much. The configuration was so special, the atmosphere was freezing with only 150 spectators in the room and very few films had been released because of the confinements. It was difficult to build something around that. I hope to find the right balance between valve and respect for the celebration of cinema, which like the whole country is coming out of a difficult period” he said at the press conference.
Given the delicate global context, Antoine de Caunes could not start this ceremony without having a thought for Ukraine since he declared: “The essence of our job is to continue even if the world is collapsing around us. Tonight we are thinking of the Ukrainians. Let’s live up to the luck they don’t have.” In addition, a magnificent tribute was paid to Gaspard Ulliel.
Besides that, viewers follow the evening attentively to discover the guests without counting the César winners who will have beautiful gifts.
If José Garcia finally appeared at the start of the evening, there is a personality who was missing when the first prize was awarded for the César for best female hope: Carole Bouquet.
Indeed, the actress of 64 years has not been spared by the COVID-19. That said, Antoine de Caunes didn’t fail to give an update and said: “I’ll tell you the truth, the immense Carole Bouquet was to do us the honor of presenting the first César of the evening, unfortunately a PCR test decided otherwise, Carole, you are watching us, I kiss you very much”. It was Franck Gastambide who took over by pretending to be her for several minutes. What change the ideas of the public. Let’s hope that the great absentee laughed in front of her television as well.
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