Their victory was overshadowed by that of Roman Polanski, a few minutes later. The Caesar Academy rewarded this Friday Anaïs Demoustier, 32, for her role in Alice and the mayor , and Roschdy Zem, 54, for Roubaix, a light .
Back on two courses of interpreters who count in French cinema.
Anaïs Demoustier, thirties with brilliant filmography
Anaïs Demoustier, who started filming young, continues to flourish on the screen. In Nicolas Pariser's film, she plays a young normalist philosopher, a hard-working intellectual charged with advising the mayor of Lyon who has no more ideas, played by Fabrice Luchini. "Anaïs Demoustier is an extraordinarily talented actress," said the director. "Its great strength is to manage to make natural and inhabit any text".
With this role, she completes an already brilliant filmography started in the early 2000s. They have earned her several César nominations: two in the category of best female hope, for Les Grandes personnes in 2009 and D'amour et d'eau fraîche in 2011, and one for the César for best supporting role for La Villa in 2018, without it having been awarded so far.
Born on September 29, 1987 in Lille, the daughter of a sales executive in mass distribution and a stay-at-home mother, Anaïs Demoustier took acting lessons before being spotted by a casting director as a teenager. She was not yet 15 when she was chosen in 2002 to play the daughter of Isabelle Huppert in Le Temps du Loup by Michael Haneke. She passed her baccalaureate and enrolled in Letters before going on to little roles, then to stand out in 2008 in La Belle Personne by Christophe Honoré, alongside Léa Seydoux and Louis Garrel.
Authors' cinema
She then toured with Rébecca Zlotowski ( Belle Epine ), Robert Guédiguian ( Les Neiges du Kilimanjaro , then Au fil d'Ariane and La Villa ), Claude Miller ( Thérèse Desqueyroux ) or Bertrand Tavernier ( Quai d'Orsay ), and won in 2011 the Romy-Schneider Prize. In 2014, she appeared in Bird People by Pascale Ferran or Une Nouvelle amie by François Ozon. We then see her in A trois on y va by Jérôme Bonnell and Caprice by Emmanuel Mouret where she plays an excessive young woman in love with a teacher, then in Marguerite and Julien by Valérie Donzelli, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015, on the story of a brother and a sister, executed in 1603 for adultery and incest, and in Les Malheurs de Sophie by Christophe Honoré.
In recent years, Anaïs Demoustier has performed with absurd and offbeat comedy director Quentin Dupieux ( Au poste! ) As well as with Frédéric Tellier ( Save or perish with Pierre Niney), Félix Moati ( Two sons ) and Robert Guédiguian ( Gloria Mundi ). Mother of a little girl she had with actor Jérémie Elkaïm, she is currently playing the poster for her brother Stéphane Demoustier's La Fille au bracelet , in which she plays a very offensive general counsel.
Roschdy Zem, gross actor with quiet strength
He is a discreet but essential figure of French 7th Art. Roschdy Zem is a brutal actor with quiet strength, whose career has been marked out by more than 80 films, mixing auteur and popular cinema. Named three times to the César in the best supporting role category (for Ma petite entreprise , Le Petit lieutenant et La Fille de Monaco ), once for the best first film ( Bad faith ) and once for the best adaptation ( Omar me kill ), he had never been rewarded.
In the dark thriller of Arnaud Desplechin Roubaix, a light , the 54-year-old French-Moroccan actor embodies a charismatic and sensitive commissioner, full of humanity, at odds with the classic characters of police officers. A role that had already allowed him to win in January the Lumière Award for the best actor, awarded by the international press in France. "It was the perfect role for him", confided to AFP in May at Arnaud Desplechin in Cannes, who sees in him "a lord" whom he "saw growing from film to film", a man "very modest" .
The actor, who also distinguished himself last year by his role as President of the Republic with the false airs of Barack Obama, in the series Les Sauvages by Rebecca Zlotowski, has established himself throughout a career where he played virile men, with many cop roles in French thrillers, but also complex characters, of mute or skinned men, revealing his fragility.
Various roles
Nothing predisposed him to the cinema. Born on September 28, 1965 of parents of Moroccan origin living in a slum, who placed him in a foster family in Belgium until his 5 years before settling in Drancy, Roschdy Zem first became a seller of shoes in Clignancourt flea market. He only discovered theater when he was 20, accompanying a friend to a class. He then begins to cast and begins filming in Les Keufs by Josiane Balasko, before J'embrasse pas by André Téchiné, with whom he will work again in My favorite season and Alice and Martin .
He then multiplies the roles in auteur cinema, making himself really known as a night watchman in In having or not by Laetitia Masson and especially as a drug addict in Don't forget that you are going to die by Xavier Beauvois. The actor then plays at Dominique Cabrera ( The Other Side of the Sea ) or Patrice Chéreau ( Those who love me will take the train ). We see it in the early 2000s in mainstream films ( Chouchou by Merzak Allouache, 36 Quai des Orfèvres by Olivier Marchal) or more pointed ( Va, vis et deviens by Radu Mihaileanu, Le Petit Lieutenant by Xavier Beauvois), with various roles, paving the way for other actors from an immigrant background.
Actor and director
2006 marked a turning point. Thanks to Indigènes by Rachid Bouchareb, on the North African skirmishers during the Second World War, he collectively won the prize for male interpretation at the Cannes Film Festival with the other actors of the film. He also made his first film that year as a filmmaker, Bad Faith , on the love story between a Jewish woman and a Muslim man. Will follow Omar killed me (2011), on the Omar Raddad case, Bodybuilder (2014), in the world of bodybuilding, Chocolat (2016), on the first black clown in France, and finally the dark thriller Persona non grata last year.
At the same time, he continued his acting career, combining author and popular cinema, from La Fille de Monaco (2008) by Anne Fontaine to Jeu (2018) by Fred Cavayé. Currently playing in The Girl with the Bracelet by Stéphane Demoustier, he is also currently playing at the theater in Harold Pinter's Trahisons , directed by Michel Fau.
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