The Second Act

2024 [FRENCH]

Comedy

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 74% · 39 reviews
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 3710 3.7K

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Plot summary

Florence wants to introduce David, the man she’s madly in love with, to her father Guillaume. But David isn’t attracted to Florence and wants to throw her into the arms of his friend Willy. The four characters meet in a restaurant in the middle of nowhere.

Director

Quentin Dupieux Photo
Quentin Dupieux

Top cast

Léa Seydoux Photo
Léa Seydoux as Florence Drucker
Louis Garrel Photo
Louis Garrel as David
Vincent Lindon Photo
Vincent Lindon as Guillaume Tardieu
Raphaël Quenard Photo
Raphaël Quenard as Christian, dit Willy
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733.31 MB
1280*656
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 19 min
Seeds 4
1.48 GB
1920*984
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 19 min
Seeds 29

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by JonyVeana 5 / 10

Interesting experience

This was an experiment by the director like a lot of his movies like rubber, a movie where there is two kinds of people, people who take the movie seriously or a a joke and depending of what you choose, your personality traits can be defineThis ls the same, i care about when i was thinking that the situation in the movie was real but when i find out that its fake and its all acting i didn't care anymore.I was the side that didn't care, that's the experiment, we are suspects for investigation to this director, we don't matter.This is not a real movie, it just an experiment but the experiment are supposed to have people who agree to take part, so 5/10.
Reviewed by sinscopefilms 6 / 10

Okay

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.
Reviewed by tributarystu 7 / 10

The Fourth Wall Is an Illusion

Quentin Dupieux's movie opening this year's Cannes is a movie about a movie about...a movie? This is all typical Dupieux, questioning our reality in clever ways, and I think everything comes together rather well here.We follow two pairs of actors heading towards a meeting at a diner, with each breaking character and the fourth wall ever more often, generating layers of reality that are usually at odds with one another. Questions are asked overtly and implicitly: does anything matter, how do we construct our reality and what about a dash of almost present-day futurism?And to top it all off, the movie ends on one of the more meta fourth wall breaks I've ever seen, a bit of a mind-scratcher that cleverly frames the syntax of movie-making.I think the ultimate claim of LDA is that the one undeniable real thing is what we feel. Not in "feelings are facts" kind of way, but rather in the effect we can have on other people, whether seen on unseen, quantifiable or not. 7.
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