Europe 1 2:34 p.m., September 15, 2021, modified at 2:37 p.m., September 15, 2021

Laurent Lafitte was Philippe Vandel's guest on Wednesday in "Culture Médias".

The actor came to present "The Origin of the World", his first film as a director.

It was also the opportunity for the resident of the Comédie Française to review the 2021 Caesar ceremony that he co-wrote with Marina Foïs and which had caused controversy.

INTERVIEW

"The reactions, I understand them and I do not understand them".

Co-author with Marina Foïs of the César 2021, Laurent Lafitte returns Wednesday at the microphone of Philippe Vandel in

Culture Médias 

on the strong reactions aroused by the last ceremony, and in particular the appearance of Corinne Masiero, who was naked on stage .

"Have we gone too far? No," says the member of the Comédie Française who came to present his film

The Origin of the World.

He assumes his share of the work, while acknowledging that the ceremony displeased some of the public.

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"I find that the ceremony, finally, resembled the year we had just lived," he theorizes.

"That is to say something a little shitty and too political, with all the same desires of cinema, all the same the desire to laugh, but not the heart to the party. I find that the ceremony looked like that" .

"Corinne Masiero was courageous"

Laurent Lafitte regrets that many have retained from the ceremony that the intervention of Corinne Masiero "It was her moment and she decided to do that. And she has the right and we have the right to have an opinion above, "he said. 'And that's not Normand's answer. I really think it's a place where some artists want to express themselves in their own way. This is what she did. It wasn't what she was written to, but it was what she did with it and she was brave. "

For the director, the Caesars cannot be summed up in this sequence. "We worked a lot on this ceremony, on the tributes, the tape recorder, the orchestra, the choice of music," he explains. "We wanted to put all our love of cinema, and it's true that there are things that have gradually taken precedence over all that."