All the gratin of French cinema had made an appointment, this Sunday, February 6, at Fouquet’s, in Paris, for the traditional lunch of the nominees for the Césars. The mythical Parisian restaurant has seen Valérie Lemercier, Léa Seydoux, Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Lacoste, Agathe Roussel, Audrey Diwan, François Civil, Benoit Magimel or even Sandor Funtek, the companion of Chloé Jouannet. Also present, Leïla Bekhti braved the rain to get to this precious event and made a strong impression in a black suit, revealing one of her shoulders.
It’s the movie lost illusions, adaptation of Balzac’s novel by Xavier Giannoli, who is at the top of the nominations for the César 2022, which will be awarded on February 25. This film, which attracted 850,000 cinema viewers despite the pandemic, is clearly in the lead with 15 nominations, including best film and best direction. Its main actor, Benjamin Voisin, is named in the category “best male hope”, where he was already competing last year for Summer 85 by Francois Ozon.
Behind this adaptation of Balzac’s great novel on the emergence of the press and its excesses, both classic and very contemporary in the themes it addresses, the members of the Academy have placed the rock opera Annette by Leos Carax (11 nominations), which is worth in particular a nomination as best actor to the American Adam Driver. To close this leading trio, AlineValérie Lemercier’s biopic dedicated to Céline Dion, in which this big fan of the Quebec singing star gives the best of herself, won ten nominations, including logically the best actress, alongside Laure Calamy for A woman of the worldagain named after winning the title last year, AFP said.
Who will succeed Goodbye Cons by Albert Dupontel, crowned last year, in the queen category of “best film”? In addition to the three films placed at the top, the members of the Academy have acclaimed BAC North by Cédric Jimenez, on the excesses of the police in the northern districts of Marseille, The event ofAudrey Diwanon abortion, which won the Golden Lion in Venice, the divide by Catherine Corsini on the France of yellow vests as well as Onona, 10,000 nights in the jungle by Arthur Harari. The 4,363 cinema professionals who are members of the Academy still have 3 weeks to vote and decide between these films, in 24 categories.
To discover the winners of the next edition of César, go to Canal +, next February 25 at 9 p.m. Antoine de Caunes will host the evening.