César Awards 2014

[Chris Knipp]

The Césars were awarded last week. A number of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2014 films were nominated. All the Best Film nominees have been discussed in these pages but the winner and Polanski's VENUS IN FUR (I saw the Broadway stage version but it was a wholly different production). We have not seen Guillaume Gallienne. I've starred the ones NOT mentioned on Filmleaf previously. Though there are some important items missing this is an answer to those who claim US French film series and other items covered here (SFIFF, NYFF), with a boost from my Paris movie journals, don't provide a good view of what the French consider to be their best cinematic efforts. We've got it pretty well covered.

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Adèle Exarchopoulos & Léa Seydoux at the Césars

Best Film
*Me, Myself and Mum/Les garçons et Guillaume, à table! (Guillaume Gallienne) [winner]
9 Month Stretch/9 mois ferme (Albert Dupontel)
Stranger by the Lake/L'Inconnu du lac (Alain Guiraudie)
Jimmy P. (Robert Desplechin)
The Past/Le passé (Asghar Farhadi)
*Venus in Fur (Roman Polanski)
Blue Is the Warmest Colour/La vie d'Adèle, Chapitres 1 et 2 (Abdeletif Kechiche)

Best Director
*Roman Polanski, Venus in Fur [winner]
Albert Dupontel, 9 Month Stretch
Guillaume Gallienne, Me, Myself and Mum
Alain Guiraudie, Stranger by the Lake
Arnaud Desplechin, Jimmy P.
Asghar Farhadi, The Past
Abdellatif Kechiche, Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Best Actor
*Guillaume Gallienne, Me, Myself and Mum [winner]
Mathieu Amalric, Venus in Fur
Michel Bouquet, Renoir
Albert Dupontel, 9 Month Stretch
*Grégory Gadebois, One of a Kind/Mon âme par toi guérie (François Dupeyron)
*Fabrice Luchini, Cycling with Moliere/Alceste à bicyclette (Philippe Le Guay)
Mads Mikkelsen, Michael Kohlhaas

Best Actress
Sandrine Kiberlain, 9 Month Stretch [winner]
*Fanny Ardant, Bright Days Ahead
Bérénice Bejo, The Past
Catherine Deneuve, On My Way
Sara Forestier, Suzanne
Emmanuelle Seigner, *Venus in Fur
Léa Seydoux, Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Best Supporting Actor
Niels Arestrup, Quai d'Orsay [winner]
*Patrick Chesnais, Bright Days Ahead
Patrick d'Assumçao, Stranger by the Lake
Olivier Gourmet, Grand Central
François Damiens, Suzanne

Best Supporting Actress
Adèle Haenel, Suzanne [winner]
Marisa Borini, A Castle in Italy
*Françoise Fabian, Me, Myself and Mum
Julie Gayet, Quai d'Orsay
Géraldine Pailhas, Young & Beautiful

Most Promising Actor/Meilleur espoir masculin
Pierre Deladonchamps, Stranger by the Lake [winner]
*Paul Bartel, Les Petits Princes
Paul Hamy, Suzanne
Vincent Macaigne, *La Fille du 14 juillet
Nemo Schiffman, On My Way

Most Promising Actress/Meilleur espoir féminin
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Colour
Lou de Laâge, Jappeloup
Pauline Étienne, The Nun
Golshifteh Farahani, The Patience Stone
Marine Vacth, Young & Beautiful

Best First Film
*Me, Myself and Mum, Guillaume Gallienne [winner]
Age of Panic/La Bataille de Solferino, Justine Triet
The Gold Cage/La Cage Doree, Ruben Alves
*En Solitaire, Christophe Offenstein
*La Fille du 14 Julliet, Antonin Peretjatko

Best Foreign Film
The Broken Circle Breakdown, Felix Van Groeningen [winner]
*Blancanieves, Pablo Berger
Blue Jasmine, Woody Allen
*Dead Man Talking, Patrick Ridremont
Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino
La Grande Bellezza, Paolo Sorrentino
Gravity, Alfonso Cuaron

FOR AWARDS IN OTHER CATEGORIES SEE WIKIPEDIA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_C%C3%A9sar_Awards)