Where and how can I see the 2023 César award-winning films? Here’s a guide to all the available films awarded during this 48th edition of the ceremony.
- Night of the 12th By Dominic Mol
Where can I see the movie? The big winner of the ceremony, with 6 prizes (Best Film, Director, Sound, Supporting Actor for Bouli Laners, Male Hope for Bastien Bouillon and Adapted Screenplay), to which we can add César for high school students. and producer, recently released in many cinemas, in the footsteps of the Cesars. That’s why it’s not too late to discover a movie on the big screen. It is currently also airing on Canal + (precisely tonight at 11:25 PM) and therefore on myCANAL. It is also available on VOD and DVD.
What is it about? In PJ, each investigator encounters a crime they cannot solve and which haunts them. For Johann, it is Clara’s murder. The interrogations follow each other, there is no shortage of suspects, and Johan’s suspicions are growing. Only one thing is clear, the crime happened on 12th night.
Listen to our César ceremony debrief podcast with Bastien Bouillon, the hero of La Nuit du 12:
- See Paris again By Alice Winocourt
Where can I see the movie? The film, which won a César for Best Actress for Virgin Broadcasting, is available on VOD and DVD.
What is it about? In Paris, Mia is attacked in a brasserie. Three months later, when she has still not managed to recover the course of her life and only remembers the events, Mia decides to explore her memory to find a way to life. Possible happiness.
- Pacifiction – Suffering on the islands By Albert Serra
Where can I see the movie? The film, which won a César for Best Actor for Benoit Magimel and a César for Best Cinematography, is still showing in several theaters and will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray on March 7.
What is it about? On the island of Tahiti, in French Polynesia, the High Commissioner of the Republic, de Rollers, representative of the French state, is a man of calculation, with perfect manners. In official receptions, such as shady establishments, he constantly takes the pulse of the local population, from which anger can erupt at any time. Especially since the rumor persists: we saw a submarine whose ghostly presence would herald the resumption of France’s nuclear tests.
- innocent By Louis Garrel
Where can I see the movie? The film, which won a César for Best Supporting Actress for Noemi Merlant and Best Original Screenplay for Louis Garrel, Tangi Vielle and Naila Gighet, is now available on VOD and DVD.
What is it about? When Abel learns that his mother Sylvie, in her sixties, is going to marry a man in prison, he panics. With the support of Clemens, his best friend, he will do anything to protect her. But meeting Michel, his new father-in-law, may offer Abel new perspectives…
- almond trees By Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
Where can I see the movie? The film, which earned Nadia Tereskevich a César for Best Actress, will be available on DVD on March 21. It is still showing in some cinemas.
What is it about? In the late 1980s, Stella, Etienne, Adele and the whole gang were in their twenties. They take the entrance exam at the Amandie Theater in Nanterre, a famous school created by Patrice Chérault and Pierre Roman. Launching life, passion, play, love at full speed, they will live together at the turning point of their lives, but also at the first great tragedies.
- Simone, Voyage of the Century By Olivier Dahan
Where can I see the movie? The film, which won a César for Best and Best Series, is available on VOD and DVD and is still playing in some theaters.
What is it about? Simon Weil’s fate, childhood, political struggles, tragedies. An epic and intimate portrait of a woman with an extraordinary career who shook her time by championing a humanist message that is still acutely relevant.
- full time By Eric Gravel
Where can I see the movie? The film, which won the César for Best Music and Best Editing, is currently broadcast on Canal+, available on myCANAL and on DVD and VOD.
What is it about? Julie struggles alone to raise her two children in the countryside and keep her job at a Parisian palace. When he finally gets an interview for the position he aspires to, a general strike breaks out, disrupting transportation. It’s all Julie’s fragile balance that’s slipping. Then he embarks on a fierce race, at the risk of sinking.
- Our Lady Burns By Jean-Jacques Anne
Where can I see the movie? The film, which won a César for Best Visual Effects, is currently streaming on OCS, available on OCS on demand and on DVD and VOD.
What is it about? Jean-Jacques Anna’s feature film recreates hour by hour the incredible reality of the events of April 15, 2019, when the cathedral suffered the most significant disaster in its history. And how men and women will put their lives on the line in an incredible and heroic rescue.
- St. Omer By Alice Diop
Where can I watch the movie? ? The film, which won a César for best first film for Alice Diop, will be released on DVD on April 4, 2023. It is still showing in a few theaters.
What is it about? Rama, a young novelist, attends the trial of Lawrence Cole at the Assize Court of Saint-Omer. The latter is accused of abandoning his fifteen-month-old daughter at high tide off the coast of northern France. But during the trial, the word of the accused, the hearing of the testimony shakes Rama’s certainty and casts doubt on our judgment.
- Return to Reims (fragments) By Jean-Gabriel Perriot
Where can I see the movie? The film, which won Jean-Gabriel Perriot’s César for Best Documentary, is now available on DVD and VOD.
What is it about? Retour à Reims (Fragments) tells the intimate and political history of the French working world from the early 1950s to the present through Didier Eribon’s text interpreted by Adele Hennel in the archives.
- as Bestas By Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Where can I see the movie? The film, which won a César for Best Foreign Film for Rodrigo Sorogoyen, is currently broadcast on Canal+, available on myCANAL and on DVD and VOD.
What is it about? Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They own a farm and restore abandoned houses to facilitate repopulation. Everything should be idyllic, but a serious conflict with the neighbors makes the tension irreparable…
- My Afghan family by Mikaela Pavlatova
Where can I see the movie? Caesar’s Best Animated Feature Film is available on DVD and VOD.
What is it about? Kabul, Afghanistan, 2001. Hera is a young woman of Czech origin who, for love, decides to leave everything and follow the one who will become her husband, Nazir. He then becomes a witness and actor in the upheavals his new Afghan family experiences on a daily basis. Through the eyes of his European woman, amid cultural and generational differences, he sees his everyday life shaken by the arrival of Maadi, an unusual orphan who will become his child…
- Leave it for a day By Amelie Bonin
Where can I see the movie? Winner of the César for Best Short Film, the film is currently available on the Arte website and the Arte Youtube channel.
What is it about? With his bachelor’s degree in hand, Julien left his hometown to build a bigger life in the capital and leave behind memories. And then one day, he has to come back, and that day his memories are slapped on his face, between two packets of Pepitos.
- Grandma’s sex life By Urska Jukic and Emily Pigeard
Where can I see the movie? Winner of the César for Best Animated Short Film, the film is currently available on the Arte website, Arte Youtube and Universciné.
What is it about? A journey through the grandmother’s youth and intimate memories reflects the status of Slovenian women in the first half of the 20th century. The strict doctrine of the Catholic Church imposed social conventions whereby women were easily seen as mere objects dedicated to satisfying their husband’s sexual needs.
- Maria Schneider, 1983 By Elizabeth Subrin
Where can I see the movie? Winner of the César for Best Short Documentary, the film is temporarily available for free on France Télévisions’ replay site.
Watch the movie on France.tv
What is it about? In 1983, Maria Schneider gave an interview to the television program Cinéma Cinémas. The conversation takes an unexpected turn when the actor confronts film industry practices and is asked to talk about the controversial film Last Tango in Paris (1972).
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