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Yannick

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In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu," Yannick interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand. He demands to be entertained but is rejected and ridiculed.

Critics Reviews

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Simon Abrams RogerEbert.com 04/05/2024
3/4
Dupieux’s latest will either annoy or charm you depending on how much you appreciate being led around by the nose by a filmmaker and a cast of characters who seem pretty committed to jerking you around. Go to Full Review
Elisabeth Vincentelli New York Times 04/04/2024
Dupieux’s fans will be happy to know that his surreal humor is gloriously intact, while newcomers might find in this movie a gateway into one of contemporary cinema’s most idiosyncratic universes. Go to Full Review
Peter Bradshaw Guardian 04/02/2024
3/5
Yannick doesn’t try blurring the lines between reality and performance in any Pirandellian way. The comedy is simpler than that. Go to Full Review
Martin Kudlac ScreenAnarchy 05/23/2024
Another comic treat ... acts as a cinematic revival of the once-dominant French theatre of the absurd ... channeled through a lens of folk comedy ... offering a satire attuned to the nuances of today's polarized society and radicalized individuals. Go to Full Review
Aaron Neuwirth We Live Entertainment 04/18/2024
8/10
Yannick begins as a comedy of manners, only to escalate into something with a tinge of darkness lurking beneath what sits as a farce about actors and theater. Go to Full Review
Andy Crump Paste Magazine 04/15/2024
8.1/10
Yannick finds Dupieux looking unexpectedly inward and demonstrating a vulnerability that’s absent elsewhere in his body of work — but not at the expense of either his tongue-firmly-in-cheek outlook, or his predilection for self-destruction. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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ELB E. @Mulholland Jul 13 Dupieux is the Ionesco of our era. See more Oleksii V @ole665 05/15/2024 again simple sight of the art inside itself with realistic absurd or unrealistic truth See more Petros T 04/08/2024 Armed with a brief runtime, snappy pacing, an amusing premise, some good acting (especially by Raphaël Quenard and Pio Marmaï) and good humour, "Yannick" is pleasant, occasionally hilarious, rather ridiculous and a breeze to sit through. The restricted setting is handled well even if it's hard to believe that the entire play is run by the three actors without any crew people whatsoever, and the meta commentary on art is interesting even if it doesn't go particularly deep and doesn't end in much. See more Martin R 03/08/2024 Hilariously unsettling, a lot works thanks to Quenard's performance. What will leave you scratching your head though is why it ends so quickly while it feels like there was much more to explore. See more 01/23/2024 I guess I can’t appreciate it, or it is indeed boring. See more Antonio K 01/15/2024 A very bravely told story, A story full of humor, satire, social criticism, and social drama. But mostly it is a story about human life and what we can do with it. It is up to us whether we will be mere spectators or participants in it. Amazing leading actor, with great use of language and very intelligent humor. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu," Yannick interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand. He demands to be entertained but is rejected and ridiculed.
Director
Quentin Dupieux
Producer
Quentin Dupieux, Hugo Sélignac, Mathieu Verhaeghe, Thomas Verhaeghe
Screenwriter
Quentin Dupieux, Quentin Dupieux
Production Co
Chi-Fou-Mi Productions, Atelier de Production
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
French
Runtime
1h 7m
Aspect Ratio
Academy (1.33:1)