Tag: Quentin Dupieux
2025 Cannes Film Festival: Bi Gan, Lynne Ramsay, Nadav Lapid, Lucrecia Martel…Who Will Claim the Final Comp Spots?
The clock is ticking—it’s the eleventh hour. The Délégué général Thierry Frémaux is deep in the final throes of curating this year’s Competition lineup...
Snowed In: Quentin Dupieux Enlists Exarchopoulos, Leklou & Kiberlain for ‘L’Accident de piano’
Quentin Dupieux had enlisted alumni Adèle Exarchopoulos and then add-ons Sandrine Kiberlain and Karim Leklou for L'Accident de piano (formerly L'Avant-dernière séance). As per...
Daaaaaali! | Review
Good Golly, It’s Dali: Dupieux Dreams Surreal in Distinctive Biopic
It seems surrealism’s pioneer Salvador Dali is experiencing something of a culturally concentric resurgence as...
Third Time’s A Charm: Dupieux & Exarchopoulos Re-team on “L’Avant-dernière séance”
After collaborating with the other half of the Blue is the Warmest Color tandem, Quentin Dupieux is re-teaming with actress Adèle Exarchopoulos for L’Avant-dernière...
Le Deuxième Acte (The Second Act) | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
The Art of Saying Nothing: Dupieux Deconstructs Cinema
Had Luis Bunuel approached conveying the reality of cinema produced by artificial intelligence, there may have been...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Asif Kapadia, Quentin Dupieux & Kiyoshi Kurosawa Best Bets in Non Comps
The majority of the Cannes Film Festival lineup is set to be revealed on April 11th, however, before we delve into the films that...
Direct to Video: Léa Seydoux & Co. Learn Their Lines for Quentin Dupieux’s “À notre beau métier”
After a 2023 where he gave us a double bill in Daaaaaali! (read review) and Yannick, Quentin Dupieux is still seeing double. The quartet...
2024 Lumières Awards: Anatomy Of A Fall, The Animal Kingdom, Last Summer & Disco Boy Land Noms
Naturally, all focus and the most nominations would go to Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall (it leads in six categories) but this did...
Venice Film Festival 2023: All of IONCINEMA.com’s Movie Reviews
We came, we saw, we conquered. Our Nicholas Bell was in review overdrive assessing the entire competition and much more. We'll still have film...
Think Big: After “Yannick” and “Daaaaaali!”, Quentin Dupieux Looking to Film Next Feature in English
A small end of interview snip-it from the Troiscouleurs folks informs us that Quentin Dupieux is looking to switch things up a bit -...
2023 Venice Film Festival – 75 Predictions: Bertrand Bonello, David Oelhoffen, Tarsem Singh & Viggo Mortensen…
Sure we are about two weeks away from the official announcements for the films that will premiere on the Lido, but we are very...
2023 Locarno Intl Film Festival: Laura Ferrés, Sofia Exarchou, Radu Jude, Ena Sendijarević, Laura Luchetti & Quentin Dupieux Selected!
It's now Locarno Intl. Film Festival (August 2nd to the 12th) Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro's turn to launch us back into major film...
Smoking Causes Coughing | Review
Vigilante Shanty: Kooky Becomes Dupieux in Latest Whimsy
Quentin Dupieux’s penchant for absurdity shows no signs of abating, with Smoking Causes Coughing, the latest offering...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Out of Comp, Midnight, Special Screenings & Cannes Premiere
The 76th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (May 16th until the 27th) begins exactly fifty days from now and from the one-hundred-plus feature...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #75. Quentin Dupieux’s DAAAAAALI !
DAAAAAALI !
A true original who never seems to be running out of zany ideas, we learned back in November that Quentin Dupieux was at...
I’m Not There: Quentin Dupieux Enlists Collective for “Daaaaaali !”
Anaïs Demoustier, Gilles Lellouche, Pierre Niney, Alain Chabat, Edouard Baer, Pio Marmaï, Jonathan Cohen, Hakim Jemili, Agnès Hurstel, Jérôme Niel, Marc Fraize, Didier Flamand...
2022 Cannes: Quentin Dupieux, Panos H. Koutras, George Miller & Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes in Cannes Non-Comp
The best film from Sundance (Shaunak Sen's All That Breathes), the film that Sundance lost (Michel Hazanvicius' Final Cut), Quentin Dupieux's second film to...
Incredible But True | 2022 Berlin International Film Festival Review
Beauty Secrets: Dupieux Latest a Strangely Tragic Fable on Human Foibles
The films of Quentin Dupieux, a prolific Belgian director who has spent most of...
2022 Berlinale: Seidl, Sangsoo, Hers, Meier, Taviani, Denis Cote & Clare Denis in Golden Bear Comp
Several of the names that figured in our most anticipated list and a new Hong Sangsoo project (The Novelist’s Film) are among the eighteen...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #32. Quentin Dupieux’s Incroyable mais vrai
Incroyable mais vrai
A project that has slightly moved up our depth chart, Quentin Dupieux's ninth feature film was more than ready to go for...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #36. Quentin Dupieux’s Fumer fait tousser
Fumer fait tousser
Especially comforting in these awkward pandemic days of 2022, we'll be receiving not one, but two servings of chicken soup for the...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #37. Quentin Dupieux’s Incroyable mais vrai
Incroyable mais vrai
Produced by Thomas Verhaeghe
Directed by Quentin Dupieux
Written by Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel, Anaïs Demoustier.
Release Date/Prediction: A...
Arte France Cinéma Give Coin to Hansen-Løve’s “Un beau matin” & Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Les Herbes sèches”
The Arte France Cinéma selection committee will be supporting a trio of eyebrow raising projects that will go into production in 2021. At the...
2020 Venice Film Festival: Michel Franco, Mona Fastvold, Jasmila Zbanic & Konchalovsky in Comp
Mona Fastvold, Emma Dante and Chloé Zhao were tipped for the comp months ago, but today heavyweights such as Jasmila Zbanic, Malgorzata Szumowska (Never...
Deerskin | Review
Full Leather Jacket: Dupieux’s Cinema Bizarre Continues with Killer Style
Quentin Dupieux, France’s purveyor or loopy absurdism, returns with Deerskin, headlined by high-profilers Jean...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #74. Mandibules – Quentin Dupieux
Mandibules
Quentin Dupieux shows no signs of slowing, with his eighth feature Mandibules a new premiere in three consecutive years. Produced by Hugo Selignac and...
2019 Cannes: Zlotowski, Bonello, Takashi Miike, Robert Eggers, Lav Diaz & Guadagnino in Fortnight
We waited for the other shoe to drop and this year's Directors' Fortnight is chockfull of directorial films with six of the twenty-three (twenty-four...
The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #76. Le daim – Quentin Dupieux
Le daim
For his seventh feature, French director Quentin Dupieux continues his particular brand of black comedy with Le daim, starring Oscar winner Jean Dujardin,...
The Conversation: Bring Forth Berlin (Possible Contenders for the Competition)
As has been the Berlinale’s custom of years past, several early competition titles have been confirmed along with the 2019 opener, Lone Scherfig’s The...
Through the Looking Glass – The Top 50 Foreign Films of 2019: Picks #50 to #11
As we look forward to a plentiful year of new cinematic offerings in 2018, it’s also time to look even further into the horizon...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #48. Quentin Dupieux’s Au Poste
Au Poste
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Writer: Quentin Dupieux
Having taken a two-year break from filmmaking to work on a new album under his pseudonym Mr. Oizo (the...
Top 3 Critics’ Picks: Thomas Cailley, Quentin Dupieux & Safdie Bros. In Theaters this May
IONCINEMA.com's Top 3 Critics' Picks offers a curated approach to the usual quandary: what would you recommend I see in theaters this month? All...
71st Venice Film Fest: Hong Sang-soo, Duane Hopkins & the Safdies Pack Horizons Section
The Venice Film Festival's Horizons section (aka Orizzonti) is logically comparable to Cannes' Un Certain Regard section. As well as including about a dozen shorts...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #115. Quentin Dupieux’s Realite
Realite
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Writer: Quentin Dupieux
Producer: Realitism Films' Gregory Bernard
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Alain Chabat, Jon Heder, Elodie Bouchez, Jonathan Lambert
Swiftly churning out his bizarre...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: Picks 200-101
Because, looking forward, 2013 promises to be such a fruitful cornucopia of cinema, we were excited to be able to easily list an additional...
As Predicted…Dupieux’s Wrong Cops and Silva’s Magic Magic Among Final Add-ons to Sundance 2013
Not sure why these films weren't part of the original announcements, but as originally predicted (here and here), 2013 Sundance Film Festival has added...
2013 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Quentin Dupieux’s Wrong Cops
From the French filmmaker who launched his career with Rubber and hit Sundance's World Dramatic Comp with Wrong the following year, his next film...
