Le deuxième acte

The cinematography is stunning - sharp, colorful, and detailed, with a minimal editing style that emphasizes its visual clarity. The one-shot scene between the two male characters, father and daughter scene is witty and thought-provoking, showcasing the expressiveness of the actors and sharp, suspenseful dialogue.

The writing is a highlight, packed with clever jokes and punchlines that feel refreshingly honest. The characters speak their minds in a way that's both funny and relatable. However, the film's pacing feels uneven. While the minimal cuts enhance immersion in some scenes, the lack of variety in perspectives made it feel a bit static.

The film's brevity also works against it, leaving some parts underdeveloped. Worst of all is the ending, which felt pointless and left me wondering why. In short, The Second Act is a "hahaha, meh, bored" type of film. Not bad overall, but a stronger, more meaningful ending would have changed it.

We saw this at a film festival in Poland with a packed audience and had a blast. I've seen Deerskin from the same director, so I knew something strange was coming, and I wasn't disappointed. But apart from the surreal twists and breaking the 4th wall as another reviewer noted, the performances were just magnifique: Each cast member felt like they were at the top of their game, and the laughs just kept coming. In Poland a celebrated trait is "distans do siebie", not taking yourself too seriously, and this quality was in full effect - every character put on airs, every human defect was exposed -- and it was a blast from start to finish. I was familiar with Louis Garrel, Lea Seydoux, and Vincent London, but Raphael Quenard was a nice surprise.

Recommend!

Quentin Dupieux is a director who makes weird movies. You either hate or love his movies. Personally, he's a hit or miss for me as he has made some movies I really like but at the same time, movies I don't fully like. This new meta comedy that explores interesting themes of reality is an interesting concept and while the performances and concept is good, the poor approach, direction, and uninteresting characters doesn't do much justice.

Dupieux's direction on trying to make this a meta commentary on movies, reality and people is interesting. Breaking fiction between reality isn't new to discuss but a good concept. But with the humor and dialogue feeling pretty forced and insufferable, it causes many moments to feel as it's nothing, and causes the characters to be pretty unbearable. It thinks it's clever but it's not, it feels painted, thin, and insufferable. I understand the intent and what Dupieux is wanting to approach, but unfortunately it really doesn't work.

The performances from the cast are all talented actors I love and they are doing their best. There are some decent long take moments that were a bit good. However as a whole, it's a tiresome of a movie. No doubt Quentin Dupieux is an interesting filmmaker but this one isn't great.

The movies from the director " Quentin Dupieux " are still different compared to the others movie that we used to see from the industry well I think so I'm not a client from this kind of cinema you have to like this style if you want to love these projects but " The second act " it's not my cup of tea !!!

Firts to all the pitch it's very interesting and I was too exiting to find out the rest of script but for me the main idea who talking about is lost during during the process of script, it's too bad that the movie it's a movie in movie directed by AI and just a real story will be great...

The fact that 2 friends find an solution about the matter of one of them will be great to talking but unfortunately the movie don't talk about that finally...cause it's a movie in movie even if this is staid out finally.... Some scene are funny but not a lot neither...

The acting was very good, did so long lines it's not easy I don't if this is the improvisation or real lines learned but the acting was enough good l, mainly Raphaël Quenard still great in everything !!!

The directing as I said it's not my cup of tea, it's not a great directing with good shoots, but it is on purpose and this is the style from the director...but I'm not fan of that !!!

Not soundtrack unfortunately...

The movie "Yannick " was great and better than this one in Medium-length film, this movie seem too long cause sometimes the script it's too boring !!!

What a waste of energy, a waste of resources, a waste of time, a waste of talent. Everything crumbles under the weight of the writing which is so full of clichés one thinks this too is also part of the joke. It is a film within a film whose plot never takes off, whose originality wears thin 10 minutes into the film. It is thankfully 1 hour 20 minutes, an hour too long. I must be in the minority here as the film opened the Festival de Cannes this year. The Second Act was filmed in the course of a little over two weeks and I found myself wondering how, and why, it was chosen to open the film festival.