2023 · comedy · thriller
Yannick
Directed by Quentin Dupieux1h 7m2023
In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.
Our read: Yannick (2023) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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