“Portrait of a Lady on Fire.”
has snubbed the Caesars, dubbed the “French Oscars, by reportedly turning down an honorary Cesar.
The French film industry and Polanski are at the centre of a storm after the Cesar Academy’s decision to honour the controversial director who is wanted in the United States for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl in 1977. The French press have billed the ceremony as the most dramatic and divisive ever, with Le Figaro daily billing it as “The Cesars of Anguish” and Le Parisien mocking up a film poster for Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”.
One of the most outspoken of the signatories, actress Aissa Maiga, is likely to present one of the Cesars, with the Oscar-nominated “Les Miserables” directed by Mali-born Ladj Ly up for 11 awards.
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