Alice Diop, Virginie Efira, Caroline Benjo, Ai Haidara, Noemi Merlant… Multiple winners and the host of the César ceremony spoke in unison to deplore the absence of the top categories and to once again condemn the gender inequality that took place on Friday February 24.
At the end of January, netizens lamented the lack of female filmmakers in the Césars’ Best Achievement category. A month later, several laureates and host Aye Haidara this Friday, February 24, did not hesitate to pay tribute to the great forgotten of the ceremony, as part of feminist petitions. Starting with Noemi Merlant, who was crowned Best Supporting Actress for her performance The innocent. “I’m thinking of all the directors who should have been honored tonight,” he said. Well, I miss them.”
In the video, behind the scenes of the filming of César Revelations
“We will not pass, nor a fashion effect.”
Speech supported by Elis Diop, which won Best First Film Saint-Omer. Realizing that he had a short moment to deliver his message, the latter humorously said: “You still won’t dare to cut off a black woman in the middle of a speech?” The film director thus greeted his “magnificent team” and noted “the new generation of French filmmakers”.
“This year I saw filmmakers who made me think about the possibilities of cinema, and I would like to mention here films that completely inspired me: Blandin Lenoir.’ And Alice Diop says: “Thank you. We will not be transient, nor a fad, we are called to renew and grow year after year.
Virginie Efira won a César Award for Best Actress for her performance See Paris againAlice Winokur also regretted her absence in the best director category. “Where are you, Alice Winokur? he started. where are the directors? Alice, this award is for you.’
“For all the women who haven’t heard.”
Composer Irene Dressel, who won Best Original Score Full time, emphasized the historical aspect of this victory. “Cinema Caesars have existed for 48 years,” he said. Over the years, five women have previously been nominated, but none of them have ever been awarded. So this Cesar, I dedicate it first and foremost to all female composers of music.” By the same token, Elizabeth Subrin, the director of the short documentary Maria Schneider, 1983Awarded during the evening, “This award is for Maria and all the women who haven’t heard.”
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“I would pay you like actors”
Actress Ai Haidara, who was one of the nine hosts of the evening, made a strong speech in favor of equality in the film world. “For the next Cesar, five women, five great actresses in supporting roles, he started. Let me address each of them. Noemi, in: The innocent, you are so amazing! You inflame us, upset us, make us laugh next to Anouk, whose madness, audacity, freedom give us cinematic moments every time.
Before proceeding The sixth child, sweet and rebellious. The house has something for every taste and color. Lina, beautiful Lina, elegant Lina. You always support big roles, strong stories. Anais, your brilliant and tenacious playing amazes us. You are a master, girls, come in! november“. And the actress ironically. “Really, these five women, if I were a producer, I would pay you like a male actor. Well, we’re not there yet.”
“There’s something wrong between men and women”
And last but not leastCaroline Benjo, producer 12 at night, who won the best César award for best film, spoke about violence against women in his acceptance speech. “Two characters in the film share this observation that there is something wrong between women and men,” he said. Remarks he described as “an understatement.” “The sickening rate of violence against women can be summed up in one sentence: a death every three days, and in bad years, every two days. “Only women know with their bodies what the violence against them is.”
The producer explained that when the film’s director Dominique Mol and screenwriter Gilles Marchand called him, it was “obvious to him that the male gaze is important” that it was necessary to “give them the floor”. ,” and that the screenwriters “absolutely had to capture this story.” He later quoted the philosopher Genevieve Freys. “He said that I also freed speech, but now it’s about liberating.”
Tears of Judith Chemla
“But in Dominik’s film, the men listen,” he said. They listen to other men, pour out deeply homophobic expressions without realizing it, but above all they listen to women and women who hold up their own mirror without compromise. The producer continues. “And I think that’s why the film upsets us, but also deeply comforts us, and why we all need it. So I would say long live the women and long live the men who join their fight because this is a fight we must fight together. A speech that brought tears to the eyes of alleged domestic violence victim Judith Chemla. For her part, actress Golshifteh Farahani made a speech in support of the people of Iran, decorated with this slogan: “Woman, life, freedom”.
Source: Le Figaro
