Brad Pitt, king of the night of French cinema with a Spanish flavor: As Bestas, best foreign film

Brad Pitt surprised this Friday with his presence at the award ceremony of the caesar awards to present the honorary trophy of the French film academy to the North American filmmaker David Fincher, who has coached his compatriot on three occasions, the first in Seven, back in 1995.

“Good evening, my name is Brad Pitt and I am a survivor”, he said with a smile, alluding to his performances in three of the films by the renowned 60-year-old director (one more than the heartthrob), who received thel Caesar honorific in the 48th edition of the most important French film awards, which have had a Spanish flavour, since the Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen won the award for best foreign film for the award-winning the beasts, great winner of the Goya.

Brad Pitt, winner of two Oscars (one for best supporting actor for once upon a time in hollywood and another as producer of twelve years a slave), was greeted with applause and the audience rose to their feet at the Parisian Olympia theater.

The ex-husband of Angelina Jolie He joked about his friend’s fame as a “perfectionist”, stating that “the legend that he can do 90 takes of the same scene is false or inaccurate, because there are 92”, he said, but after the joke he praised Fincher’s work, which “It speaks for itself” and assured that her life changed when she met him in 1994 and had coffee with him. Fincher has been nominated three times for Best Director at the Oscars, one of them, in 2008, for The curious Case of Benjamin Button, starring Pitt, who also followed his orders in addition to the aforementioned Seven (1995) y Fight club (1999).

Not only the Spanish film about the brutality against a Frenchman in a Galician village triumphed in Paris this Friday. another spanish movie Pacifiction, competing in nine categories, took home the best actor awards for Benoit Magimel and to the best photography for Artur Tort. Pacifiction He did not get any Goya nominations. Below, Marina Fois, protagonist of As Bestas and nominated for a Goya for Best Supporting Actress. The French comedian accompanied Sorogoyen in this new triumph of the rural thriller.

“I don’t know how we got here. Thanks to the Academy for letting us be a small part of French cinema,” Sorogoyen said when collecting the award. Let’s remember that his film stars two French film stars, such as Denis Ménochet (Goya for Best Leading Actor) and Marina Foïs. The award for best actress went to Virginie Efira by Memories of Paris, with the 2015 attacks in the French capital as a backdrop.

The innocent, police comedy Louis Garrel which started with 12 nominations, took only the César for the best original screenplay and the best supporting actress for Noemie Merlant.

Jane Birkin y su hija Charlotte Gainsbourg, below, mother and daughter next to Alice Attal. The presence of Birkin’s granddaughter, Gainsbourg’s daughter, was highly commented as three generations came together on stage.

Juliette Binoche, who emotionally received the International Goya in Seville weeks ago.

Fanny Ardant, impressive and beautiful as always at 73 years old.

The appearance of Monica Belucci, in angry red, after revealing her romance with Tim Burton, was quite an event.