For her first film music, electro artist Irène Drésel is nominated for a César

After Émilie Simon in 2006 for The emperor’s walkBéatrice Thiriet in 2015 for Bird People, Anne Dudley for She and Sophie Hunger for My life as a courgette in 2017and Fatima Al Qadiri in 2020 for Atlantic, Irène Drésel is only the sixth woman since the creation of the Césars in 1976 to be nominated in the Best Original Music category. A singular figure on the French electro scene, she signs the soundtrack of the film by Franco-Quebec director Eric Gravel Full time with Laure Calamy (nominated for the César for best actress). A France 3 team met her at her home near Dreux, before the ceremony which will take place at L’Olympia in Paris on February 24.

Already rewarded last April at the Beijing Film Festival, Irène Drésel could become next Friday the first woman to win the César for best original music. Facing her, five other nominees (including a duo) and among them Grégoire Hetzel, for whom this is the fourth nomination (for The Innocent of Louis Garrel), and above all Alexandre Desplat (for Cut! by Michel Hazanavicius), rewarded three times already by the Académie des César (out of ten nominations), and twice at the Oscars.

But not enough to put pressure on the musician: “There are very beautiful films that don’t win any prizes, so there, it’s just wonderful what happens around this film, but it’s only a bonus in fact. For me, the music is already made, so now I take what there is to take. The nomination is already huge“.

In the meantime, Irène Drésel continues her concerts all over France with her bewitching and hypnotic music. It will be on February 25 in Saint-Nazaire, March 3 in Orléans, on the 18 in Vélizy-Villacoublay at the ElectroChic Festival, then in Bourges in April and at the Beauregard Festival in Normandy on July 8.