Bill Murray performed a wonderfully odd speech at the National Board of Review Awards last night in honor of Sofia Coppola, reflecting on her directorial career from 1999’s The Virgin Suicides to her latest feature, Somewhere, a film scored and partially soundtracked by her partner Thomas Mars’ band, Phoenix. At one point, Murray went on a hilarious tangent about the French rocker:
Sofia has gotten into life. She’s married. Now she’s got a French lover, [Mars]. She has two beautiful children by this French lover. And I, for one, am sick of these directors with the homely kids. I can’t stand it anymore. She’s got beautiful children, and she lives with a man who is the only Frenchman that could play rock and roll, ever. Fuck Johnny Hallyday! [Audience roaring, gasping.] Pardon my French.
Check out his full speech over at Vulture. On a semi-related note, here’s hoping the PS22 kids reprise their take on Phoenix’s “Lisztomania” for their Oscars performance next month.