Spaniard Albert Serra's strange trip to Tahiti was like a tsunami after Enlightenment jurors.
The international journalists, based in France, who award these prizes, on Monday evening crowned
Pacifiction torment on the islands
with three statuettes in the categories of direction, actor and image.
Its star
Benoît Magimel
becomes the third comedian in the history of the Enlightenment to win the title of best actor twice.
He joins Michel Serrault and Mathieu Amalric.
Benoît Magimel is, however, the first performer to sign this double for two consecutive years after his triumph in 2022 for the drama
In his lifetime.
An atmospheric film, entirely driven by the freewheeling performance of Benoît Magimel as High Commissioner of the Republic in Tahiti.
The other big winner of the evening, which took place at the Forum des Halles, was the feminicide thriller
La nuit du 12
.
Dominik Moll's investigation left with the king trophy for best film and best screenplay.
Virginie Efira sacred,
The innocent
shunned
This order of arrival between
La nuit du 12
and
Pacifiction
reflects the full number of nominations for the two feature films which left only crumbs for the other contenders.
In the best actress category,
Virginie Efira
won for her performance as a mother-in-law in search of motherhood in
Les Enfants des autres
by Rebecca Zlotowski.
The Belgian actress, retained by the evening of the Révélations des César, arrived in extremis at the end of the ceremony to receive her prize.
The Revelations prizes distinguish
Nadia Tereszkiewicz,
double of Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi in
Les Amandiers,
memories of the actress's years of apprenticeship when she was a student at the school and at the Amandiers de Nanterre theater, alongside Patrice Chéreau.
The prize for the best first film goes to the poignant melodrama on the adoption of
Le Sixième enfant
by Léopold Legrand, with Sara Giraudeau.
The statuette for best animated film goes to
Petit Nicolas – What are we waiting for to be happy?
by Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre.
Bringing together foreign correspondents from 36 countries, the Lights give an idea of the trends that will prevail at the Césars.
The French Film Academy will reveal its nominations on January 25.
The ceremony, chaired by Tahar Rahim, will take place on February 24.
