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Kristen wins the Cesar Award for Best Supporting Actress!

posted 9 years ago by spuffy148
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Kristen Stewart won the Cesar Award today! I'm very happy for her! Makes me want to see this movie even more now.
Kristen made history by being the only American woman to ever win a Cesar and the first one even nominated in 30 years!

[–] mmitchell355-2 9 years ago

I am so excited for Kristen and I am eagerly awaiting the movies opening in America.

[–] wlp325 9 years ago

Her role in Sils Maria was convincingly well performed, and the ever present give-and-take between Kristen and Juliette Binoche was professional acting at its finest. She richly deserved her César nomination, and although I have not seen the competing nominees, I'm still (if unfairly) delighted she won.

Rest in peace, Roger Ebert. You were the best.

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[–] armagecko 9 years ago

Jerry Lewis is still very popular there. Some things about France just can't be rationally explained.

[–] rideautuile 9 years ago

I'm French and I don't know where did you see Jerry Lewis is still popular ?

[–] armagecko 9 years ago

Oh, I don’t know, maybe it was the July 2013 Vanity Fair article that detailed the Jerry Lewis film festival in Paris. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/07/french-love-jerry-lewis-paris

Or maybe it was the article from the November 2013 issue of The Atlantic that described the long line of Parisian ticket holders waiting to get into a showing of Docteur Jerry et Mister Love, otherwise known as The Nutty Professor. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/an-american-moviegoer-in-paris/309520/

But most likely, it was the May 18, 2013 article in the NY Times, titled Le Grand Jerry Lewis, written by none other than Agnes C. Poirier, a Parisian journalist and film critic for Libération, in which she explains (tada!) the French fascination with Jerry Lewis. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/opinion/sunday/le-grand-jerry-lewis.html?_r=0

So, yeah, maybe I AM crazy, but I’m not the only one, c'est vrai?

[–] tousapoil 9 years ago

Most French people don't know who Jerry Lewis is. He might have been really popular here at some point and there might be a few people who are still fond of him today, but saying he is still very popular in France is simply false.

[–] armagecko 9 years ago

Right. It makes total sense for all of the people interviewed in the 3 stories linked above to be lying about his continued popularity. It couldn't possibly be your limited perspective. Thanks for setting us all straight about what all French people know, like and appreciate. Your gift of omniscience is truly unparalleled.

Now, how about that cure for cancer?

[–] [email protected] 8 years ago

During more than 30 years living in France, I've never heard anybody French so much as mention Jerry Lewis, but then people in the arts stage all sorts of far-out festivals, so why not?

Anarchy and violence are contradictions in terms...

[–] Ithilfaen 8 years ago

Jerry Lewis is still very popular there. Some things about France just can't be rationally explained.

Right. A1so they don't shower and there are mimes roaming the streets.

Oh, I don’t know, maybe it was the July 2013 Vanity Fair article that detailed the Jerry Lewis film festival in Paris. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/07/french-love-jerry-lewis-paris

Or maybe it was the article from the November 2013 issue of The Atlantic that described the long line of Parisian ticket holders waiting to get into a showing of Docteur Jerry et Mister Love, otherwise known as The Nutty Professor. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/an-american-moviegoer-in-paris/309520/

But most likely, it was the May 18, 2013 article in the NY Times, titled Le Grand Jerry Lewis, written by none other than Agnes C. Poirier, a Parisian journalist and film critic for Libération, in which she explains (tada!) the French fascination with Jerry Lewis. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/opinion/sunday/le-grand-jerry-lewis.html?_r=0

And maybe you shouldn't trust everything you read in the American press. How surprising all these "articles" are separated only by a few months. American journalists tend to look at other American journalists for ideas, and then trends are born. Nobody really bothers verifying anything because, hey they read it somewhere so it must be true.

I have lived in France 20 years and I can tell you one thing: the very few people who even know who Jerry Lewis is roll their eyes when he's mentioned.

This stupid stereotype started because the "international Jerry Lewis" fanclub is in France. A bunch of crazy people with an obsession doesn't define a culture, sorry.

"Agnès C. Poirier" is a journalist who writes on demand. She's lived in the UK since her teens so having a French name and being asked to write about a particular stereotype doesn't make you an expert on French culture.

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

[–] awkwardponies 9 years ago

Just saw this today. I can see why she won. Incredible performance, she really sticks with you. Hopefully the academy doesn't forget her.

[–] mark19967 8 years ago

They forgot her!

Were on the express elevator to Hell - goin down

[–] kvc2 7 years ago

Stewart won with the supportive performance of Binoche, without whom she would never have got by with all that murmuring, giggling, wriggling,, dropping words, and in general not "acting," just being "herself." That's a movie star, not an actress. I love this movie but without Binoche's experience and intelligence it would have been an embarrassment.