A film by Quentin Dupieux. In French with English sub­tit­les.
On August 1st at 8pm. English intro­duc­tion by Gerrit Woltemath, TEDDY Award

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Applying the same scru­ti­ny and meta­tex­tu­al iro­ny to cine­ma that he used to dis­sect the hypo­cri­sies of the theat­re world in YANNICK, Quentin Dupieux’s latest work is a film about making a (bad) film within a film, or some­thing along tho­se lines… LE DEUXIÈME ACTE fol­lows four actors coming tog­e­ther to crea­te a for­mu­laic roman­tic come­dy that most of them des­pi­se, with the­se sce­nes pro­gres­si­ve­ly intert­wi­ned with the film its­elf to form a mise en aby­me that con­ti­nu­al­ly defies interpretation—and some­ti­mes even logic. While fea­turing inven­ti­ve plot twists remi­nis­cent of Charlie Kaufman, Dupieux’s film is cru­der and more overt­ly come­dic. This ‘meta-come­dy’ sati­ri­ses ever­y­thing from con­tem­po­ra­ry film pro­duc­tion to the exces­ses of poli­ti­cal cor­rect­ness, from actors’ vani­ty to the many secrets and lies of the (French) enter­tain­ment indus­try. Léa Seydoux, Philippe Garrel, Vincent Lindon and the ever-inten­se and sur­pri­sing Raphaël Quenard ful­ly embrace the incre­asing­ly absurd situa­tions their cha­rac­ters face, in a film that mana­ges to be both subt­le and gross, hila­rious and una­po­lo­ge­ti­cal­ly crude—all trade­marks of Dupieux’s distinc­ti­ve style. (Diego Lerer)

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FR 2024, 85 Min. fran­zö­si­sche OmeU
Regie, Kamera, Schnitt: Quentin Dupieux
mit Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel, Raphaël Quenard, Manuel Guillot

Trailer:

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