The Cesar Academy will pay tribute, during the 46th César Ceremony, to the formidable troupe that has forever marked comedy and the hearts of the French: the Splendid.
In 1978, the adaptation of their play "Amour, Coquillages et Crustacés" (Love, Shells and Shellfish) was released on the big screen, directed by Patrice Leconte, "Les Bronzés". The Splendid then met the French public and has not left it since: "Les Bronzés font du ski", also directed by Patrice Leconte, "Le Père Noël est une ordure" and "Papy fait de la résistance", two films directed by Jean-Marie Poiré, or again in 2006, when the troupe met again in front of Patrice Leconte's camera, for "Les Bronzés 3: Amis pour la vie". Their work is quite simply part of the national heritage of French humor.
With this César, The Cesar Academy would like to thank them for all these years of laughter, cult lines, and tasty dialogues. Le Splendid has influenced entire generations of artists in film, theater, acting and writing. They wrote some of the most beautiful hours of French comedy and invented a new style, a new language, which everyone has appropriated.
This award ceremony will be without any hesitation one of the great moments during the ceremony to be held on the stage of the Olympia on Friday, March 12. It will also be a symbolic Cesar because 40 years after the opening of Le Splendid Saint-Martin Theater.
(Source: press release)