By Diego Batley, from Mar del Plata
Rating
Posted on 11-11-2023
Two feature films in 2022 (Impenetrable Miss Fry and Smoking causes coughing) and two more this year, both presented in the zero hour section of this edition of the festival, is a great production mark for the prolific and always rave French director, who deals with almost all the main categories of short films (just over an hour each), but with multiple and original ideas.
Yannick (France/2023). Screenplay, editing, filming and directing: Quentin Dubio. Cast: Raphael Quinard, Blanche Jardine and Pio Marmay. Running time: 69 minutes. In the zero hour section.With nearly half a million spectators in French cinemas, Yannick (presented at the Locarno Film Festival) It became one of the most successful films in Dobbio’s entire career. And this makes sense, since it is one of the most accessible films, although this adjective does not mean that it is a traditional film.
The protagonist (Raphael Quinard) is a security guard who took a day off to go to one of the oldest theaters in Paris, but after a few minutes he finds the play terrible, interrupts it loudly to complain, and when the three actors (Pio Marmay, Blanche Jardin and Sébastien Chasani) are logically angry with him, he pulls a gun directly. And not only that: he decided to write some scenes right away and force them to act out.
The reflection of the average man and the frustrated spectator who goes up on stage to guide the artists he says they tore him up works very well overall, although in a society (world) where carrying guns and attacking madness in public has become commonplace, the initial satirical comedy gives way to something more disturbing, uncomfortable and sad.
This (France/2023). Screenplay, editing, filming and directing: Quentin Dubio. Cast: Anaïs Demoster, Gilles Lelouch, Edward Bayer, Jonathan Cohen, Pio Marmay. Running time: 77 minutes. In the zero hour section.
Agnès Demoustier is a journalist who is about to interview Salvador Dali, but the artist leaves the meeting when he realizes that it is for a graphic medium and there are no cameras to film the report. The grieving young woman will by all means try to organize another note (now with the support of a producer played by Roman Doris), but will continue to fail again and again in her successive attempts.
Now, in the world of ridiculous, stylized and delirious comedy that he handles well, Dupieux allows himself many boldness, such as the selfish and arrogant character of Dali (who asserts all the time that the greatest artistic creation was his own) to be embodied by many actors: from Gilles Lelouch to Edward Bayer, passing through Jonathan Cohen and Pio Marmay (one more hysterical and unleashed than the other).
Parody) towards the arrogance of works of art (sometimes reminiscent of us My masterpieceby Mariano Cohn and Gaston Dobrrat), This – which had its world premiere at the last Venice Film Festival – allows itself all sorts of complicit winks, references, satirical tributes and narrative games with many more achievements than shortcomings. The result is a movie as much fun as it is fun.
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