Caesars 2011: Preferred, the forgotten ...
One of the traditions of the Caesars as spectators, is to choose its preferred over predict the winners. This is even more fun than the ceremony is far less predictable than the Oscars, surprises may be numerous. And every year there are always forgotten. A few hours of the Caesars, I feel like choosing my favorite among the principal appointed, and point the finger at those who have been unfairly overlooked by the Academy. For not shelling the categories, I prefer to concentrate on only ten of them here.
Best Film
The nominees: The arnacoeur, Men and Gods, The Ghost Writer, The name of the people, Gainsbourg (heroic life), Mammuth, Tour.
My favorite: The Ghost Writer
. If that is my favorite film among the nominees, it seems unlikely that
Men and Gods does not win the Cesar for Best Film. And I do not see anything wrong with the victory of good film by Xavier Beauvois.
The Forgotten: The Princess of Montpensier
. Passage noticed but not rewarded in Cannes, Hon score without sparkle at the box office ... The exciting film by Bertrand Tavernier did not get the praise and the career he deserved, and it is regrettable that the Caesars have not caught the coup, despite seven nominations for the Cesar possible Best Picture.
Best Director
The nominees: Xavier Beauvois (Men and Gods), Mathieu Amalric (Tour), Roman Polanski (The Ghost Writer), Olivier Assayas (Carlos), Bertrand Blier (The sound of ice cubes). My favorite
: Xavier Beauvois. Polanski would have said, having realized my favorite movie called, but the work to give life to Beauvois Men and Gods is as surely the filmmaker's most deserving.
The Forgotten : Bertrand Tavernier, of course. The director has shown plenty of bottle with La Princesse de Montpensier he had lost none of his modernity and his romance with his remarkable film costume. It is forgotten in favor of Bertrand Blier
revolts me. Yeah, me sick!
Best Actor
The nominees: Gerard Depardieu (Mammuth), Lambert Wilson (Men and Gods), Jacques Gamblin (People's names), Eric Elmosnino (Gainsbourg), Romain Duris (The arnacoeur).
My favorite: This is a difficult category to decide. In my eyes none stands out plainly. Elmosnino book may be the interpretation most "performance as an actor, but I biopics swell a little, this one too. Lambert Wilson does not detach itself from its peers in Men and Gods . Depardieu makes Depardieu. Gamblin is good, but then to say he is the best player of the year. And finally, if the interpretation was light, physical comedy and unexpected Duris, her multi-forgotten of the Caesars, who was this year's most deserving?
The Forgotten : If the absence is certainly the most astonishing that the already Cesar Fabrice Luchini, rejoicing in 2010 guests of my father and Potiche , one that is less but is revealed more unfair is undoubtedly the lack of Podalydès Denis, who carried with melancholy and humor failed Eight Times Up . It seems hardly conceivable that Podalydès, one of the best French players for several years now, has been nominated once, for Caesar Best Supporting Actor in Summer Things eight years ago, and that's it.
Actress
The named Isabelle Carré (emotions anonymous), Catherine Deneuve (Potiche), Sara Forestier (People's names), Charlotte Gainsbourg (The Tree) Kristin Scott Thomas (Sarah '). My favorite
: Not having seen Sarah ' , no Kristin Scott Thomas for me. That made me smile the most and moved me the most this year, among the appointees, Isabelle Carré is called, even if the fire by Sara Forestier attracted me.
The forgotten : Melanie Thierry who gave strength and delicacy in the title role of La Princesse de Montpensier Tavernier.
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
The nominees: Michael Lonsdale (Men and Gods), François Damiens (The Heartbreaker), Niels Arestrup (The man who wanted to live his life), Olivier Rabourdin (Men and Gods), Gilles Lellouche (Small handkerchiefs)
My favorite : If there is a price that is expected this year is one that will be presented Michael Lonsdale for his portrayal of the brother doctor in the film by Xavier Beauvois. It's going to get, and he deserves it. Unlike Lambert Wilson, Lonsdale is the soul of the film, strong, calm, imposing its presence once it is on the screen. Too bad for François Damiens, indescribable in The Heartbreaker.
The Forgotten : Christopher Lambert
in
White Material . In ex-husband jaded and lucid, Lambert shows that it is not a actor direct-to-video, it imposes its presence with its calm and tranquility. A few years ago already, I would have aptly named in that category for Janis and John
.
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
The appointees : Valerie Bonneton (Small handkerchiefs), Karin Viard (Potiche), Anne Alvaro (The sound of ice cubes), Julie Ferrier (L 'arnacoeur) Laetitia Casta (Gainsbourg).
My favorite: My two favorites in this category are films that do me not packed. Valerie Bonneton, electric, supercharged, and clearly the most disappointing aspect of handkerchief. And Karin Viard, secretary of the feminist theater Potiche .
The forgotten : Marina Fois, showing that it can be a great dramatic actress in The man who wanted to live his life Eric Lartey. A woman tired Romain Duris, time is remarkable.
Most Promising Actor
The nominees: Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet (The Princess de Montpensier), Raphaël Personnaz (La Princesse de Montpensier), Arthur Dupont (Bus Palladium), Edgar Ramirez (Carlos), Pio Marmaï (D’amour et d’eau fraîche).
Mon favori : Raphaël Personnaz. A mes yeux il écrase la concurrence cette année. Il brille devant la caméra de Bertrand Tavernier, il se montre virevoltant et séducteur, volant chaque scène où il apparaît, magnétique et très bon acteur, avec un petit côté Delon de la grande époque.
L’oublié : Olivier Barthélémy dans
Notre jour viendra . L’un des acteurs de Kourtrajmé is trying to make a nice place in French cinema. Faced with Vincent Cassel, he is disarming, disturbing and surprising. There was ample room for him in appointments.
Most Promising Female
The appointees : Leila Bekhti (All That Glitters), Audrey Lamy (All That Glitters), Lea Seydoux (Library Thorn), Anais Demoustier (D ' love and fresh water), Yahima Torres (Black Venus). My favorite
: Anais Demoustier. This is the second time after his delicate interpretation Grown , she was appointed to the Cesar for Most Promising, and she deserved it even then. The young woman displays a disarming ease and always just before the camera, and is among the most talented young French actresses.
The forgotten : Géraldine Nakache in All that glitters. As well as to appoint Bekhti and Lamy, why leave it on the side Nakache? Okay, it would have made more than half of the appointments for the distribution of the same movie ...
Best First Work
The nominees: The arnacoeur Gainsbourg (Heroic Life), Simon Werner
disappeared ... , All That Glitters, head of Turk.
My favorite: The
arnacoeur . The Academy proved last year that it knew how to show bold in his choices with victory in this category
Kissers . And finally, there was no more exciting this year in French cinema as energy, humor, freshness and audacity of the arnacoeur.
The Forgotten: Our Day
. He deserved to be named? Sure. Is it any wonder he does not? Not really. The first film by Romain Gavras is not really consensual, either in form or in the tone. But it was his explosive character, and his own cinematic qualities, of course, that made him a legitimate pretender. Too bad the Academy shows cautious with this film.
Best Documentary Film
The nominees Cleveland against Wall Street, Benda Bilili!, Our hands, Oceans, Yves Saint Laurent - Pierre Bergé: mad love. My favorite
: Cleveland cons Wall Street or Oceans, neither do documentaries marked me deeply, and they are the only two I have seen nominated.
The Forgotten :
The thorn in the heart . There may be no more shocking oversights that one. Not content to be the best documentary of the year is one of the finest films of all nationalities in 2010. A portrait of filial relationships tender and heartbreaking. A shameful failure.
Best Foreign Film
The nominees:
Invictus, The Heartbeats, The Social Network
, Illegal,
Inception , Bright Star, in his eyes.
My favorite: Heartbeats
. Xavier Dolan is much too talented for his age, but it's absolutely disgusting and undeniable magic to the image of his second film, a moment of pure cinematic poetry eyeing the side of Wong Kar Wai.
The Forgotten : I can not blame the voters for not having offered up to
Breathless in appointments. In contrast, the Best Screenplay at Cannes,
Poetry, one of the most successful Asian art films in recent years in France, could legitimately claim to an appointment. The American
A Single Man and English
Agora would also beautiful appointed.