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  • Quentin Dupieux – Yannick (2023)

    Quentin Dupieux2021-2030ComedyFrance
    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 »

  • Bruno Dumont – France (2021)

    Bruno Dumont2021-2030ArthouseFrance

    Lawrence Garcia, Cinemascope wrote:
    In the seven years since P’tit Quinquin, it has become impossible to continue tagging Bruno Dumont with the longstanding clichés of Bresson criticism. Epithets like “ascetic,” “severe,” “punishing”—already limited descriptors of his first two works, La vie de Jésus (1997) and L’humanité (1999)—have only become more obviously incapable of describing Dumont’s recent films, from the carnivalesque contortions of Ma Loute (2016) to the musical extremes of his Jeanne d’Arc movies. Still, as Dumont’s methods (particularly his increasingly frequent use of professionals alongside non-actors) have ostensibly moved away from those of Bresson, the deeper affinities between the two filmmakers have only become clearer. Read More »

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