It is one of the most important tasks of the cinema, to shed light on what is otherwise invisible. Lighten the darkness, is not only a physical basic condition of this medium, but sometimes his moral mandate. A few years ago a young couple was stoned by marauding jihadists in northern Mali. The Western media hardly took notice of this event. Mauritanian director Abdrerrahmane Sissako however, made it so concerned that it was the trigger of his film “Timbuktu”.
It is a masterpiece of poetic outrage. His arguments against fundamentalist violence are the beauty and confidence of counter-employed. His multi-faceted, not naive humanism succeeds masterfully to rid Islam held hostage by Islamists.
Yesterday evening was the started in Germany in December film as the big winner of the 40th ceremony of César forth. He was nominated for Best Picture, Sissako became the first African to receive the award for Best Director. In addition, he was awarded in the categories screenplay, sound, editing, cinematography and film music. For this purpose, we must still the price for the producer of the year include the French Film Academy had given advance on Monday to Sylvie Pialat; For the second year in a row by the way.
Strong Competition
The clarity of this decision is of unparalleled elegance. It is aesthetically and politically well-legitimized. While the Berlin Bear award past was no way to “Taxi” a week ago, sat down “Timbuktu” against strong competition from.
His triumph could also act as an antidote to the possible victory, the Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper” could win in tomorrow’s Academy Awards. While Eastwood’s patriotic sniper can only see Wilde in his Iraqi enemies Sissako paints a quite contradictory and ironic image of Jihadists: It gives people a human face, although they perform cruel and barbaric acts. “There is no clash of civilizations”, Sissako said in his acceptance speech, “but only their encounter.” In the category of Best Foreign Film can “Timbuktu” on Sunday also at the Oscars with a good chance.
Of course could not César perpetrated attacks in January Ignore the editors of “Charlie Hebdo” and a Jewish supermarket. The comedian Dany Boon, president of the ceremony, celebrated storytelling as a gesture of comfort and humanity. In the shadow of the terrible events of the ceremony, however, was not. Of course, witty tips were placed against their own industry, especially the much-criticized inflation actor salaries, particularly benefited from Boon.
Young Cinema
After several years of crisis, the French film industry can present in excellent shape. The private market share is proud 44 percent. The austerity measures, the producers and financiers have chosen is paying off. Especially comedies and documentaries with small and medium-sized budgets proved profitable 2014. Their phenomenal box-office success could the domestic blockbuster “Monsieur Claude and his daughters” and “Understand the Béliers” (Germany Start: March 5), however, does not translate into a price rain
Even the highly anticipated duel between two biopics about Yves Saint Laurent, who went into the race with ten respectively seven nominations, failed. The film, directed by Jalil Lespert version won in the category Best Actor (Pierre Niney), Bernard Bonellos by critics preferred variant won ironically for Best Costume Design: Because Saint Laurent’s life partner Pierre Bergé had denied her his approval, it could not use the original draft of the couturiers but had to rely on the imagination of the designer Anais Romand.
Also, two German directors were awarded a César. Wim Wenders was awarded for “Salt of the Earth” trophy for best documentary. The homage to the photographer Sebastião Salgado fights on Sunday also about the documentary Oscar. However Wenders accepted the award at the ceremony does not preclude personally. The award for best adapted screenplay went to “diplomacy” by Volker Schlöndorff and Cyril Gely, on the play of the same based war drama.
The award reflected the vitality of a young cinema whose protagonists are usually around 30. Thomas Cailleys’s acclaimed “Les Combattants”, which tells the story of love at first sight during a maneuver was named Best First Feature and his leading lady Adèle Haenel (last year even nominated for Best Young Actress) was able to prevail against Juliette Binoche and Catherine Denueve , Binoche partner in “The Cloud of Sils Maria,” Kristin Stewart, won the first American ever a César (Best Supporting Actress).
Secret Winner
That Céline Sciammas” gang des filles “(which starts in Germany in the next week) empty-handed, is certainly a bad mistake. A secret winner of the evening was the Le Pacte hire, not only in France Sissako’s film, but also Wim Wenders’ “Salt of the Earth” (Best Documentary) and Thomas Liltis “Hippocrate” (Best Actor: Reda Kateb) in theaters brought
Thus, the risk appetite Award at this year’s César. Jean Labadie, the head of the company, Sissako gave his promise, even though this he initially no script could provide, but only a narrow design of two pages. The director himself found him weak. More than 750,000 spectators were previously in France alone quite a different opinion.
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