Le Deuxième Acte

... but someone should have called a halt to this before it made it to release!

Along the lines of "let's get four or five REALLY good actors (and that idiot Garrel) and get them to play a very meta scenario intermingling "real life" and "the film", and make some elliptical comments about AI, filmmaking and the state of the world along the way." Shame it doesn't really work, and it's certainly not funny. I feel sorry for the Cannes audience who presumably had to pretend they liked it on the night.

I must say that I have really enjoyed some of Quentin's earlier films (such as Mandibles and Smoking Causes Coughing) so was quite ready for something weird and, frankly, if it wasn't him I would have bailed on this fairly early on. But ultimately this came across as one of those homework essays that you produced on a Sunday night when you didn't really feel like it, but had to hand *something* in on the Monday morning, even if it was rubbish and not ready.

Hopefully his next film will be a return to form.

Don´t want to put too much into it, but I liked this little peace a lot, mostly because it has been shot in a kind of casual way, doesn´t seem to want to be "a big one".

It has got a different approach to the slightly surreal storytelling I had been expecting. The visuals are quite plain, the rhythm of this film is made by the actors. More dialog driven than most of his other movies, it plays with the cliches of shooting a film in a funny/clever way, has some nice twists, a not too subtle sense for self irony (of the actors and shooting independent film in AI times).... and a looong dolly track. See for yourself.

We saw this at a film festival in Poland with a packed audience and had a blast. I've seen Deerskin from the same director, so I knew something strange was coming, and I wasn't disappointed. But apart from the surreal twists and breaking the 4th wall as another reviewer noted, the performances were just magnifique: Each cast member felt like they were at the top of their game, and the laughs just kept coming. In Poland a celebrated trait is "distans do siebie", not taking yourself too seriously, and this quality was in full effect - every character put on airs, every human defect was exposed -- and it was a blast from start to finish. I was familiar with Louis Garrel, Lea Seydoux, and Vincent London, but Raphael Quenard was a nice surprise.

Recommend!

This was an experiment by the director like a lot of his movies like rubber, a movie where there is two kinds of people, people who take the movie seriously or a a joke and depending of what you choose, your personality traits can be define

This ls the same, i care about when i was thinking that the situation in the movie was real but when i find out that its fake and its all acting i didn't care anymore.

I was the side that didn't care, that's the experiment, we are suspects for investigation to this director, we don't matter.

This is not a real movie, it just an experiment but the experiment are supposed to have people who agree to take part, so 5/10.

The movies from the director " Quentin Dupieux " are still different compared to the others movie that we used to see from the industry well I think so I'm not a client from this kind of cinema you have to like this style if you want to love these projects but " The second act " it's not my cup of tea !!!

Firts to all the pitch it's very interesting and I was too exiting to find out the rest of script but for me the main idea who talking about is lost during during the process of script, it's too bad that the movie it's a movie in movie directed by AI and just a real story will be great...

The fact that 2 friends find an solution about the matter of one of them will be great to talking but unfortunately the movie don't talk about that finally...cause it's a movie in movie even if this is staid out finally.... Some scene are funny but not a lot neither...

The acting was very good, did so long lines it's not easy I don't if this is the improvisation or real lines learned but the acting was enough good l, mainly Raphaël Quenard still great in everything !!!

The directing as I said it's not my cup of tea, it's not a great directing with good shoots, but it is on purpose and this is the style from the director...but I'm not fan of that !!!

Not soundtrack unfortunately...

The movie "Yannick " was great and better than this one in Medium-length film, this movie seem too long cause sometimes the script it's too boring !!!