2024-02-24 20:55:01
The 49th César ceremony saw the triumph of “Anatomy of a Fall” by Justine Triet on Friday, which won six trophies, including best film and best direction. But the evening also gave a unique place to victims of sexual violence.
For once, the main part of the ceremony was not the awards or the tributes, eclipsed by the speech of Judith Godrèche, who has become a leading figure in French #MeToo. It was to a standing ovation from the representatives of a 7th art accused of having covered the violence for years that the actress entered the stage of the Olympia, in Paris, to denounce the “level of impunity, of denial and privilege” of the environment.
“Why accept that this art that we love so much, this art that binds us, is used as a cover for illicit trafficking in young girls?” she said. “You have to be wary of little girls. They touch the bottom of the pool, they bump into each other, they hurt themselves, but they bounce back,” continued the actress, who filed a complaint against directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon for sexual and physical violence during his adolescence, which the latter deny.
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Best achievement by a woman
The contrast was striking with the 2020 edition of the Césars, when Roman Polanski, accused of rape, received the prize for best director for “J’accuse”, causing the departure of actress Adèle Haenel.
The question of sexual violence arose from the introductory remarks of the president of the ceremony, Valérie Lemercier: “I will not leave this stage without praising those who are shaking up the habits and customs of a very old world where the bodies of some were implicitly at the disposal of the bodies of others.”
Another symbol, the Césars awarded for the second time in their history the trophy for best director to a filmmaker, Justine Triet, for “Anatomy of a Fall”. The feature film dominates the evening with six trophies, including best film, and gains new momentum before the Oscars (March 10 in Los Angeles), for which it has five nominations.
“I would like to dedicate this Caesar to all women […] to those who succeed and those who fail, those who have been hurt and who free themselves by speaking and those who cannot do it,” declared the 45-year-old director, who in May also became the third filmmaker of the story to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
“Collective blindness”
Just as symbolic, the academy awarded its very first prize, the César for best supporting actress, to Adèle Exarchopoulos, for “I will always see your faces”, where she plays a victim of incest. Also before the opening of the festivities, the French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati also deplored a “collective blindness” which “lasted for years” in the industry, in an interview with the magazine Le Film français.
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