Yannick

2023

1h 7m

Comedy

Drama

List

95%

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19 Reviews

76%

Audience Score

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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.

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

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.

Rated: 3/4

Apr 5, 2024

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Elisabeth Vincentelli

New York Times

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.

Apr 4, 2024

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Yannick doesn’t try blurring the lines between reality and performance in any Pirandellian way. The comedy is simpler than that.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 2, 2024

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Martin Kudlac

ScreenAnarchy

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.

May 23, 2024

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Aaron Neuwirth

We Live Entertainment

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.

Rated: 8/10

Apr 18, 2024

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Andy Crump

Paste Magazine

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.

Rated: 8.1/10

Apr 15, 2024

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Oleksii V

again simple sight of the art inside itself with realistic absurd or unrealistic truth

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

05/15/24

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Petros T

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.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/08/24

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Martin R

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.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/08/24

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Audience Member

I guess I can’t appreciate it, or it is indeed boring.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/24

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Antonio K

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.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/15/24

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Juanjo C

Strange and interesting idea that could have become a nice movie... I liked Rubber disliked Manbibles and I'm not looking forward to watch any other film by QD....

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/06/24

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Quentin Dupieux

Director

Raphaël Quenard

Yannick

Pio Marmaï

Paul Rivière

Blanche Gardin

Sophie Denis

Sébastien Chassagne

William Keller

Agnès Hurstel

La préposée du vestiaire

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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)