Yannick

Im Zuschauerraum eines Theaters: Es wird ein mäßig interessantes Kammerspiel gegeben. Just als uns die Frage dämmert, ob Quentin Dupieux auch nicht mehr hält, was sein Name einst versprach, reißt es Yannick (genial: Raphael Quenard) von seinem Zuschauersitz hoch, und sein wilder Ärger über das miese Theaterstück und -ensemble bricht sich Bahn. Es folgt eine rasant-aberwitzige Eloge über Sinn und Unsinn (klein-)bürgerlichen Kulturgenusses oder auch die Überlegung, ob nicht Waffengewalt für mehr Stimmung im Theater sorgen könnte. Ein Film wie eine pfeffrige Praline: vollmundig, kompakt und wahnsinnig gut! (Katja Wiederspahn)

Keine Tickets für die Vorführung und Preisverleihung im Gartenbaukino am 31. Oktober um 19:30 Uhr!

Can a play be seen as a form of kidnapping in which an artist holds a spectator captive? And can the latter escape the artist’s bonds? Quentin Dupieux must have been thinking of such questions when he shot this film in relative secret, immediately before making DAAAAAALI! with his customary prolificacy. In YANNICK, the play in question, which is hugely uninspired, is being performed at a boulevard theatre in Paris. A husband, his wife and her lover discuss the extramarital affair before a skeptical audience; the trio of actors is affected and unconvincing, the script is simply dreadful. That’s when an anonymous spectator gets up and shouts loud and clear what no actor wants to hear: the show sucks. Worse than that: the spectator is enraged enough to demand revenge with a gun in his hand. YANNICK is an efficient and resourceful film just as obsessive and manic as the rest of Dupieux’s oeuvre, albeit with one big difference: this time, he deprives himself of all the supernatural elements that have otherwise guided his work, from the tyre that came alive in RUBBER to the giant fly from MANDIBULES. In this ferocious black comedy Dupieux reminds us that there is no better special effect than the human body after all. (Francisco Ferreira)

No tickets available for the screening and award ceremony at Gartenbaukino on October 31st at 7:30pm!

Quentin Dupieux: NONFILM (2002), STEAK (2007), RUBBER (2010), WRONG (2012), WRONG COPS (2013), RÉALITÉ (2014), AU POSTE! (2018), LE DAIM (2019), MANDIBULES (2020), INCROYABLE MAIS VRAI (2022), FUMER FAIT TOUSSER (2022), DAAAAAALI! (2023)