Quentin Dupieux's Yannick is now showing exclusively on Mubi from April 5, 2024.Yannick.Ever since he dogged a sentient tire on a killing spree in Rubber (2010), musician-turned-filmmaker Quentin Dupieux has been distilling a singular form of gonzo. The films he’s crafted—a body of work swelling at the speed of Hong Sang-soo, with six features released since 2019—all belie their modest means. Rarely stretching longer than eighty minutes, they’ve followed a number of deranged characters, which have recently included a man reprogrammed as a killing machine by his leather jacket; a pig-sized fly and the two bums who try to make a pet out of it; a gang of Power Rangers–type avengers armed with tobacco smoke’s chemical constituents, and a middle-aged couple who discovers a time-travel portal in their basement. Dupieux—who routinely writes, shoots, directs, and edits his own films—likes to work with a...
- 4/8/2024
- MUBI
“All the world’s a stage,” said Jaques in Shakespeare’s As You Like it, “And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances.” What he didn’t say, though it follows on logically enough if you think about it, was that some miss their cues and others barge in too early. And what if the play’s not very good? What then?
Some poor players surrender meekly to life’s vicissitudes, but others, disregarding the cost, are determined to take command of their own destinies. Such a man is Yannick (Raphaël Quenard), a night watchman who does his job diligently and who therefore thinks it reasonable that others should do the same. That includes actors, and theatre directors, and playwrights. Watching a boulevard comedy in a small theatre, Yannick feels betrayed. He doesn’t get many nights...
Some poor players surrender meekly to life’s vicissitudes, but others, disregarding the cost, are determined to take command of their own destinies. Such a man is Yannick (Raphaël Quenard), a night watchman who does his job diligently and who therefore thinks it reasonable that others should do the same. That includes actors, and theatre directors, and playwrights. Watching a boulevard comedy in a small theatre, Yannick feels betrayed. He doesn’t get many nights...
- 4/3/2024
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Dupieux’s melancholic comedy sees a disillusioned audience member pull a gun before demanding a word processor to write the actors a better play
Quentin Dupieux is one of the vanishingly small number of film-makers on the non-Anglo-American distribution circuit who really is interested in – and allowed to make – straight-up comedy, albeit flavoured with melancholy or violent absurdity. For me, only Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern are comparable. Aki Kaurismäki, for example, is different; although gently and wonderfully comic, his films don’t try to hit the laugh lines in the same way.
The prolific Dupieux has now created a 67-minute sketch, a one-act cine-play about a mediocre Paris stage company performing a dinner-theatre comedy called The Cuckold to a bored, half-empty house. Just as they are grinding through their tired old routines, a guy called Yannick (Raphaël Quenard) stands up in the auditorium and announces that this so-called comedy...
Quentin Dupieux is one of the vanishingly small number of film-makers on the non-Anglo-American distribution circuit who really is interested in – and allowed to make – straight-up comedy, albeit flavoured with melancholy or violent absurdity. For me, only Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern are comparable. Aki Kaurismäki, for example, is different; although gently and wonderfully comic, his films don’t try to hit the laugh lines in the same way.
The prolific Dupieux has now created a 67-minute sketch, a one-act cine-play about a mediocre Paris stage company performing a dinner-theatre comedy called The Cuckold to a bored, half-empty house. Just as they are grinding through their tired old routines, a guy called Yannick (Raphaël Quenard) stands up in the auditorium and announces that this so-called comedy...
- 4/2/2024
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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