French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux believes it’s time for him ” to close [son] flapper”. While his new film The Second Act must open the 77e Cannes Film Festival, on May 14, the director announced in a note to journalists that he would decline any interview request.
” Today, (…) I want to be silent. Not out of weariness or pretension, but simply because [Le Deuxième Acte]very talkative, says in well-chosen words everything I want to say and already contains his own analysis extremely clearly”he explains in the message.
After having made six films over the last four years, the director, a specialist in absurd and ultra-short comedies – generally around an hour – believes that “the pace of exits has accelerated considerably for me and without realizing it I have accumulated a speaking time in the media probably greater than the duration of my 12 films combined. A shame.”
“We look forward to your reviews”
For Mr. Dupieux (aka Mr. Oizo in electronic music), “it would therefore be useless, in my opinion, to listen to a director and his actors paraphrase a film in which everything is always said and commented on in real time.” “We really look forward to reading your criticisms, comments or insults”he also quipped.
At 49, Quentin Dupieux has established himself as one of the French references in absurd humor, with 13 feature films in seventeen years. His universe attracts more and more stars, from Jean Dujardin to Alain Chabat, Benoît Poelvoorde, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Drucker. And for three years he has been able to broaden his audience with works like Incredible but true, Yannick And Daaaaaali.
The Second Actscheduled for release on the same day as the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, is his first collaboration with Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel, and his fourth with Raphaël Quenard, whom he revealed in Yannick.