Just 15 days before the Cesar ceremony, the management of the Academy, criticized for both the opacity of its operation and its management of the Polanski affair, announced Thursday its collective resignation. "I think there are a certain number of people who want to tackle following this adventure, which is very beautiful and which we managed to keep alive," explained the microphone to Europe 1 director Danièle Thompson, who is also the vice-president of the Académie des César.
"We felt that it was the sensation of a large part of French cinema, and it is with great happiness that we give way to them", adds the daughter of Gérard Oury, who says to himself "completely delighted with the turn of events. " In a column published Monday by Le Monde , 200 personalities of French cinema called for a "deep reform" of the Academy of Caesar, denouncing a system "elitist and closed".
"A ceremony that was not the desired showcase for French cinema"
Invited Friday morning of Europe 1, the director Michel Hazanavicius, one of the signatories of this tribune alongside, in particular, Omar Sy, Bertrand Tavernier or even Agnès Jaoui, welcomed this collective resignation. "The operating mode was obsolete, not at all aligned with the other academies and gave birth every year to a ceremony which was not the desired showcase for French cinema," he said.