Second tour

Dupontel is always a sensitive, intelligent, funny, crazy and sometimes angry cinema. I was no fan more than that of goodbye the idiots, even if I had spent a pleasant moment, Goodbye up there too, these last two films made me spend a nice moment but not enough striking. In fact I really like Albert, he is one of the few who dares to be sensitive and do the staging, so even if I find his old films a little on the side I never really wanted to hit him, because after all, every time it's well done and it's not so bad.

This time, with Second Round, I think he is waiting for a real form of maturity and it works much better for me. So if the film remains very close to his usual style, he dares here to face a subject much more difficult than usual, it is more serious and straightforward. Albert exposes himself a little more to the image of his character on a very important social subject.

Indeed if the character is double like its title it is not a coincidence, Albert no longer seems to want to run away by finally launching a real little missile on the company with this film that does badly good and reminds, that we must never give up. I wait for the next one with a certain impatience, because it is not very far, to make films that dare to put a head blow as in his youth but with this time, much more maturity in these subjects.

A little rocambolesque would be the French term of this movie, which has a great one liner comment on French politicians, and some funny moment .. One need to accept to leave his logic at home to fully enjoyed this movie...the storyline is a little impossible..but the pointy they make is valid... Especially if one compare it to the Donald snow in this presidential USA campaign...it make this movie more believable....ah the effect of the Donald ....never boring for sure ...like him this movie seems to be an alternate reality...the French.media also get exposed for their bent much like in the show Succession.

I've loved Dupontel since Bernie in 1996 (that I saw in a Theater then). I know by heart half of the incredible lines of text and hilarious madness of this first feature. But since then, it has been so many disappointments after too much expectations. And this last one is not saving anything. It is so conventional in the "good thinking" that it is so simple and wrong. Only one character still has the right writing and genius of Dupontel, it's Gus, the "moron" cameraman. At least he is funny and has many smart lines to play. And the actor plays them perfectly. Besides these few great moments, the whole movie is just pathetic. And I'm very sad to write that. Not enough work. Not enough contradiction in the production process. The artist has gone mad and too free to tell whatever he thinks is so smart. But it's NOT !! Neither smart, nor entertaining. It's just boring. It is the caprices of a rich artist alone that no one dares to contradict. My opinion. Not better than his. But I don't make movies and don't have this arrogance to think I'd be better to think for you. Hope he comes back better next time. Still love Dupontel, just for Bernie and his stand-ups in the 90's. But damn it's painful today. Let's hope he will be more listening to others next time. And that he will put more total out-of- this-world craziness (as before) or get real substance to it (like Polanski did when going political).