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This year’s Cesar Awards, France’s equivalent of the Oscars, saw an actress strip off on stage in protest over the closure of cinemas and theatres during the age of coronavirus. Corinne Masiero’s rallying call for culture came as she presented the best costume award at the Paris ceremony. The actress appeared on stage in a donkey costume, with tampons for earrings. “Is that too trash?” Masiero asked the socially-distanced audience, before removing the donkey costume to reveal what loo...

Emmanuel Mourets Love Affairs Leads Frances Cesar Nominations Elsa Keslassy, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Emmanuel Mouret’s “Love Affairs” (The Things We Say, The Things We Do) is leading the nominations for the Cesar Awards, France’s top film honors. Nominations were announced online on Wednesday. The film, which was part of Cannes 2020’s official selection, weaves together a series of romantic tales exploring love, friendship and infidelity with an ensemble cast including Camel...

By Melanie Goodfellow2020-12-22T15:53:00+00:00 As part of Screen’s Perspectives on 2020 series, Gaumont CEO Sidonie Dumas explains how she juggled production and release schedules at the French powerhouse in the face of two national lockdowns. Source: Subject’s own Sidonie Dumas Sidonie Dumas is CEO of France’s oldest film company Gaumont. Under her leadership, it quit the exhibition sector in 2017 to focus on film and TV production as well as theatrical distribution at home. The compa...