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As bestas

, by

Rodrigo Sorogoyen

, has won the

César award for Best Foreign Film

at the gala held this Friday night while

Pacificction

, by the Catalan director

Albert Serra

, has won two of the nine César awards for which it was nominated, which were for

Benoît Magimel

for

Best Actor

and for

Artur Tort's cinematography

.

After sweeping the Goyas,

Sorogoyen

has once again taken the podium to receive the prize awarded by the French Academy.

"Thank you for letting us be a small part of French cinema"

, said the Madrid director from the stage.

Later, in statements to the press, he stated that it was already a "dream" to have been nominated for such good films.

As bestas

competed with the Belgian

Close

(Lukas Dhont), the Swedish

Boy from Heaven

(Tarik Saleh), the Polish

EO

(Jerzy Skolimowski) and the also Swedish

Triangle of Sadness

(Ruben Östlund).

In fact, the director has come to point out that he almost "felt a little bad" about competing, because, after the success of the Goya, it seemed too "ambitious" to win in France as well.

"Now that we have achieved it, it is like

a perfect icing on the cake, there could not be a better ending, a better climax than winning the César, incredible,"

he said.

For their part, the winners Magimel and Tort, after receiving their awards, have praised the freedom that Serra gives them in their work.

"I never thought it was possible to be so free," Magimel said emotionally from the stage of the Olympia theater in Paris.

Tort, Serra's regular collaborator, has thanked him for everything they have done together and for everything they still have to do.

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