Quentin Dupieux

  • Quentin Dupieux – L’Accident De Piano AKA The Piano Accident (2025)

    2021-2030ComedyFranceQuentin Dupieux

    Social media influencer Magalie is in big trouble. Fleeing to her remote chalet in the frost-bitten mountains after a freak accident, the renegade trendsetter occupies her isolated estate with her subservient personal assistant. When a journalist comes knocking at her door, blackmailing the mean-spirited celebrity in exchange for an interview exclusive, Magalie is forced to confront her turbulent upbringing and her empire of senseless video slop. What follows is a tragic-comic satire on the extremities of internet sensationalism, as Magalie’s entire career comes crashing down with her insatiable personality.Read More »

  • Quentin Dupieux – Incroyable mais vrai AKA Incredible But True (2022)

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    Alain and Marie moved to a quiet suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them: what is in the basement may well change their lives forever.

    A mysterious tunnel in the cellar of their new home will turn their lives upside down. When Alain’s boss and his girlfriend come over for dinner, the temptation to share the incredible story about the tunnel is strong.Read More »

  • Quentin Dupieux – Daaaaaali! (2023)

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    Judith, a French journalist meets Salvador Dali on several occasions, one of the main representatives of surrealism and one of the most famous painters of the twentieth century for a documentary film project which never gets to start shooting…Read More »

  • Quentin Dupieux – Réalité AKA Reality (2014)

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    There are several plot strands that come together like elegantly crafted origami. It’s only by watching each fold intertwine that we arrive at the beautiful final product.
    A young girl named Reality (Kyla Kenedy) witnesses her hunter father gut a hog and from the animal’s innards she spots a blue video cassette (remember those). She believes the cassette holds some big secret. Her wacky parents think she’s imagining things…Read More »

  • Quentin Dupieux – Le deuxième acte AKA The Second Act (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 meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.Read More »

  • Quentin Dupieux – Yannick (2023)

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    Yannick (2023)
    Yannick (2023)

    PLOT: In the middle of a performance of the play “Le Cocu”, a very bad boulevard comedy, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.Read More »

  • Quentin Dupieux – Au poste! AKA Keep an Eye Out (2018)

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    Quote:
    You could potentially create some sort of slogan from Garde à vue meeting Buffet froid, if it was at all possible to classify the unclassifiable director Quentin Dupieux, as illustrated by Keep an Eye Out, the new film by the very offbeat director of Steak, Rubber (Cannes Critics’ Week in 2010), Wrong (in competition at Sundance in 2012), Wrong Cops (Piazza Grande at Locarno in 2013) and Reality (Horizons section at Venice in 2014). In a feature film as zany as ever that marks the director’s return to the French language, the filmmaker has nevertheless embarked on an interesting and subtle variation of his exploration of absurd realism.Read More »

  • Quentin Dupieux – Fumer fait tousser AKA Smoking Causes Coughing (2022)

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    PLOT: A group of vigilantes called the “tobacco-forces” is falling apart. To rebuild team spirit, their leader suggests that they meet for a week-long retreat, before returning to save the world.Read More »

  • Quentin Dupieux – Steak (2007)

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    Quote:
    The year is 2016 and fashion and standards of beauty have changed dramatically. A new rage has swept through the ranks of the young: radical facelifts. George, a young graduate who has recently had a facelift, takes advantage of his summer holidays to join up with the most respected bigshots of the area, 15 rich bullies with extreme facelifts who pass their time watching virtual sports and using superfluous technologies. After a failed attempt to give himself a facelift with a stapler, Blaise is rejected by George, his one-time childhood friend. Desparate, Blaise kidnaps a young girl so that the ransom money will buy him a proper facelift just like everyone else’s.Read More »

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