Le Deuxième Acte

Original title: Le deuxième acte

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6.4/10

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Louis Garrel, Vincent Lindon, Manuel Guillot, Léa Seydoux, and Raphaël Quenard in Le Deuxième Acte (2024)

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Florence wants to introduce David, the man she's madly in love with, to her father. But David isn't attracted to her and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The characters ... Read allFlorence wants to introduce David, the man she's madly in love with, to her father. But David isn't attracted to her and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The characters meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.Florence wants to introduce David, the man she's madly in love with, to her father. But David isn't attracted to her and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The characters meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.

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IMDb RATING

6.4/10

3.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 nominations total

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Trivia
The production was kept a complete secret during the whole shoot. The aerodrome owner didn't even know that Vincent Lindon had been present. Léa Seydoux revealed a month after shooting that she had just spent two weeks on Quentin Dupieux's latest production, and that's how everyone found out about it.

Crazy credits
The very long dolly tracks used for the first shot are shown at length during the credits.

Connections
References Arnold et Willy (1978)

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Featured review

7/10

The Fourth Wall Is an Illusion

Quentin Dupieux's movie opening this year's Cannes is a movie about a movie about...a movie? This is all typical Dupieux, questioning our reality in clever ways, and I think everything comes together rather well here.

We follow two pairs of actors heading towards a meeting at a diner, with each breaking character and the fourth wall ever more often, generating layers of reality that are usually at odds with one another. Questions are asked overtly and implicitly: does anything matter, how do we construct our reality and what about a dash of almost present-day futurism?

And to top it all off, the movie ends on one of the more meta fourth wall breaks I've ever seen, a bit of a mind-scratcher that cleverly frames the syntax of movie-making.

I think the ultimate claim of LDA is that the one undeniable real thing is what we feel. Not in "feelings are facts" kind of way, but rather in the effect we can have on other people, whether seen on unseen, quantifiable or not. 7.