The team of the film "Adieu les cons", Nicolas Marie, Virginie Efira and Albert Dupontel.
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Seven nominations, seven wins.
Albert Dupontel won Friday for the first time in his career the César for best film for
Adieu les Cons
.
This comedy, which saw its indoor career shattered by the second confinement after having gathered 700,000 spectators in one week, was full on Friday at the César with seven awards.
At the Olympia, the ceremony was, unsurprisingly, dominated by the pandemic, in particular with the exposure of Corinne Masiero in support of intermittent workers.
In addition to the César for best film,
Adieu les cons
won that of best supporting actor, was the choice of high school students and earned Albert Dupontel, who shone by his absence on Friday evening at the Olympia, that of the best director, reward he had already obtained in 2018 for
Goodbye up there
.
Goodbye idiots
, this is how the message pre-recorded by JB (Albert Dupontel himself) ends, for the attention of colleagues in the obscure administration where he works, before shooting himself in the head. .
But losing among the losers, JB even misses his suicide: the ball passes by, crosses the partition and ends its race in the open space.
Dupontel absent
A few meters from Suze Trappet (Virginie Efira), terminally ill who has only one wish before dying: to find a son to whom she gave life under X, as a teenager.
He agrees to help her and their duo will become a trio when they join a blind archivist, Mr. Blin, played by one of Dupontel's favorite actors, Nicolas Marié.
Again at the perfectionist author of
Bernie
and
9 months firm
, no detail is left to chance, especially if it can be the subject of a joke, preferably sour: if Mr. Blin has lost his eyes , it was because of an LBD shot and he developed an obsession with the police, the object of recurring gags.
Without downtime, the film follows the trio's desperate quest for 1.30 hours, led by determined Virginie Efira.
Until a final in which Dupontel does not hesitate to inject an unexpected dose of romanticism, then of the tragic.
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The complete list
Best film:
Farewell to the idiots
by Albert Dupontel
Best Director:
Albert Dupontel for
Adieu les cons
Best actress:
Laure Calamy in
Antoinette in the Cévennes
Best Actor:
Sami Bouajila in
A Son
Best Supporting Actress:
Emilie Dequenne in
Things We Say, Things We Do
Best Supporting Actor:
Nicolas Marié in
Adieu les cons
Best female hope:
Fathia Youssouf in
Mignonnes
Best Male Newcomer:
Jean-Pascal Zadi in
Simply Black
Best first film:
Deux
by Filippo Meneghetti
Best Original Screenplay:
Albert Dupontel for
Adieu les cons
Best Adaptation:
Stéphane Demoustier for
The Girl with the Bracelet
Best Original Music:
Rone for
The Night Coming
Best Foreign Film:
Drunk
by Thomas Vinterberg
Best animated film:
Josep d'Aurel
Best Documentary:
Adolescentes
by Sébastien Lifshitz
Best Production Design:
Carlos Conti for
Adieu les cons
Best Costume:
Madeline Fontaine for
The Good Wife
César of high school students:
Farewell the idiots
of Albert Dupontel
Caesar 2021
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