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.
Raphaël Quenard
Yannick
Pio Marmaï
Paul Rivière
Blanche Gardin
Sophie Denis
Sébastien Chassagne
William Keller
Agnès Hurstel
La préposée du vestiaire
Jean-Paul Solal
Le monsieur qui s'énerve
Laurent Nicolas
L'homme à l'ordinateur
Mustapha Abourachid
L'homme invité au restaurant
Sava Lolov
Le patron de l'auto-école
Charlotte Laemmel
La patronne de l'auto-école
Frank Lebreton
Le technicien théâtre
Félix Bossuet
L'adolescent
Agathe L'Huillier
La mère de l'adolescent
Caroline Piette
La femme du premier rang
Loelia Salvador
La fille au chat
Lucie Gallo
La fille au clic-clac
Stéphane Pezerat
L'homme qui s'échappe
Director, Screenplay
Quentin Dupieux
May 16, 2024
7
We've all been to the theatre and wondered what we were doing there? Rarely, though, have any of us stood up to complain about the lacklustre performance directly to those on the stage. Well "Yannick" (Raphaël Quenard) does precisely that moaning that he's taken a day off work and spent his time and money on their presentation of "Le Cocu" that's not exactly enthralling him. Initially the talent engage, then they send him packing. Undeterred, he returns shortly afterwards with a gun, demands a laptop, a printer and devises a script for them to improve on their efforts. Yes, it's all fairly far-fetched and for a while I wasn't sure whether "Yannick" was actually the fourth cast member of the ensemble in to shake things up a bit. Certainly, the theatre goers never look very intimidated by their "captor". It is that ambiguity and an entertaining Quenard rendition that makes this quite a quirky watch that though it goes on too long, is actually at times quite an innovate piece of characterful cinema-cum-theatre that has just enough of the plausible about it to make it funny sometimes. It runs out of steam completely at the end, but the first forty minutes or so are original and worth a watch.
Status:
Released
Original Language:
French
Budget:
$0.00
Revenue:
$3,500,000.00