Paris (AFP)

Everyone has their side: almost a week later, the eventful ceremony of the Cesars marked by the Polanski controversy never ceases to make waves, causing sharp positions which add to the discomfort in French cinema.

Since Friday evening, during which Roman Polanski, accused of rape, received the award for best achievement, resulting in the departure from the hall of actress Adèle Haenel, the award of this award continues to elicit many reactions.

She tears up the middle of the 7th Art between defenders of Roman Polanski, who criticize violence against him, and supporters of Adèle Haenel, who see in the filmmaker the symbol of violence against women, like the novelist Virginie Despentes and from her tribune or from actress Julie Gayet, for whom the departure of Adèle Haenel was "a very strong testimony".

Conversely, after the actors Fanny Ardant, Isabelle Huppert or Lambert Wilson, who defended Roman Polanski, it was very virulent remarks by a former casting director against Adèle Haenel, which ignited these two social media.

"Haenel you are tiny compared to the talent of Roman," wrote Olivier Carbone, who worked on "La Môme" or "Inglorious Basterds", in a message published Monday evening on Facebook. "Given my sources Haenel, you will have a good surprise very soon with a good omerta well deserved dead career that hangs in your face!", He then threatens in this text, modified several times and finally deleted.

- "Wilson endorses" -

A violent position which aroused many indignant reactions, like that of the director Eva Husson, denouncing "the former hate casting directors".

Cesar mistress Florence Foresti, who had decided not to return on stage after the Roman Polanski award, has also been the target of heavy attacks since Friday.

C8 host (Canal + group) Cyril Hanouna thus notably estimated that "it is an insult to the Canal group (which broadcast the ceremony) to be gone before the end", affirming that it "would have touched 130,000 euros" for the evening.

Lambert Wilson had criticized both Adèle Haenel and Florence Foresti, denouncing the "absolutely abominable public lynching" of Roman Polanski.

His reaction earned him protests Wednesday evening in a Lille performance hall where he was performing, hosted by the Lille National Orchestra (ONL) to sing a series of works around the German composer Kurt Weill.

A dozen people left the room before the show started chanting: "Polanski rapes, Wilson guarantees", applauded by part of the audience.

- "clumsiness" -

The actor Jean-Pierre Darroussin, who had aroused criticism by debaring the name of Roman Polanski when he announced his César for best adaptation, returned to his side on this moment in the magazine Transfuge.

He said he "did not want to humiliate Polanski" but tried to "make fun of himself". "It is very clumsy on my part," he admits.

Reacting to another uneasy moment during the ceremony, the companion of the filmmaker Jean-Claude Brisseau, who died in May, denounced in a letter to the Académie des César "the rudeness, the injustice, the violence, the ignominy of his absence "from the list of missing to which the Caesars pay tribute.

The absence of the filmmaker, convicted in 2005 for sexual harassment, is "a class relationship between part of the profession and the filmmaker", she judges in this letter, of which Le Monde obtained a copy.

Recalling that her companion was "a prolo", she lambasted the "double standards, two measures" of those responsible for the Caesars.

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