INTERVIEW
One more crisis for the Caesars. The Academy, already shaken during the Roman Polanski controversy, was this time openly criticized from the inside. 200 personalities of French cinema denounced in a forum the "elitist and closed" functioning of the Caesars, and asked for an in-depth reform. Marina Foïs, who is one of the signatories, wants to believe in dialogue, while brandishing the threat of a "split".
"We are asking for a dialogue, I am not a head cutter. The text is very clear: transparency, democracy, parity, diversity and diversity. If the people who run this association agree to discuss and represent us in our multiplicity , our variety and our contradictions, then it will be wonderful. But if the dialogue is not possible, obviously there will be a split, "she warned on Tuesday evening on Europe 1.
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"We can sign this petition and go to the Cesars"
"It is an association made up of people who make a cinema alive and internationally recognized for its creativity. But it does not seem to us that the variety of these cinemas is heard at the Césars", she continues to justify the publication of this forum on the World site.
But then, could the signatories display their dissatisfaction at the next Cesar ceremony on February 28? "Not at all! I have not heard of any actions. All the families of the cinema are represented in the signatories, in particular a lot of nominees like Toledano and Nakache, Roschy Zem, Karine Viard, Céline Sciamma… We can sign this petition and go to the Caesars. This is not an action against the Caesars, "assures Marina Foïs.