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" J'accuse is a good film, but it hurt so many people. It is not logical that it should be named as many times", deplores Vincent Lacoste, while the 45th Cesar ceremony takes place on Friday evening. At the heart of the storm: the film "J'accuse" by Roman Polanski, named no less than 12 times when the director was charged with a new rape accusation at the end of 2019.
"I saw the film, it is good [...] but I do not know if it deserves a statuette. In any case, I did not vote for and I found that there were best films ", comments on the microphone of Europe 1 Vincent Lacoste. "It is true that it is not very modern, and a little insulting, considering all that happened, that J'accuse is named 12 times", adds the actor to the poster of the film "My glory days ", hit theaters this week.
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A resignation from the management of the Cesars which goes in the right direction
The actor signed a column two weeks ago, with some 200 other film personalities, to denounce the "elitist and closed" functioning of the Academy of Caesar. "At one point, if people no longer find themselves in the votes and the nominations, it's time to change things," he said, assuring that this mobilization was not intended to "cut heads ".
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Despite everything, Vincent Lacoste considers that the joint resignation of the management of the Cesars, on February 13, two weeks before the ceremony, "proves that everyone is going in the same direction [of the transparency and parity requested by the petition, editor's note. So it's pretty positive. "