Yannick (2023)
Country: FR
Technical: col/1.37:1 67m
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin
Synopsis:
A performance of a poorly attended kitchen sink comedy is interrupted by a disgruntled member of the audience, who proceeds to hold the theatre at gunpoint while he devises his own evening's entertainment.
Review:
A hostage drama played for laughs is but one of the strands of this uproarious farce, which satirically picks away at the mundanities of theatre and the theatrical in the every day. Not so long ago audiences, particularly Parisian ones, would have no compunction in voicing their opinion of the show in question, but now they have become so torpid as even to offer up their laptop, in the knowledge of the potential for embarrassment it encloses, and an actor changes place with his antagonist out of jealousy for the attention he is getting. A piece of filmed café-théâtre dominated by a show-stealing turn from Quenard, as the coarse but eloquent Yannick.
Country: FR
Technical: col/1.37:1 67m
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin
Synopsis:
A performance of a poorly attended kitchen sink comedy is interrupted by a disgruntled member of the audience, who proceeds to hold the theatre at gunpoint while he devises his own evening's entertainment.
Review:
A hostage drama played for laughs is but one of the strands of this uproarious farce, which satirically picks away at the mundanities of theatre and the theatrical in the every day. Not so long ago audiences, particularly Parisian ones, would have no compunction in voicing their opinion of the show in question, but now they have become so torpid as even to offer up their laptop, in the knowledge of the potential for embarrassment it encloses, and an actor changes place with his antagonist out of jealousy for the attention he is getting. A piece of filmed café-théâtre dominated by a show-stealing turn from Quenard, as the coarse but eloquent Yannick.
Country: FR
Technical: col/1.37:1 67m
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Raphaël Quenard, Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin
Synopsis:
A performance of a poorly attended kitchen sink comedy is interrupted by a disgruntled member of the audience, who proceeds to hold the theatre at gunpoint while he devises his own evening's entertainment.
Review:
A hostage drama played for laughs is but one of the strands of this uproarious farce, which satirically picks away at the mundanities of theatre and the theatrical in the every day. Not so long ago audiences, particularly Parisian ones, would have no compunction in voicing their opinion of the show in question, but now they have become so torpid as even to offer up their laptop, in the knowledge of the potential for embarrassment it encloses, and an actor changes place with his antagonist out of jealousy for the attention he is getting. A piece of filmed café-théâtre dominated by a show-stealing turn from Quenard, as the coarse but eloquent Yannick.