Cannes Film Festival: a comedy by Quentin Dupieux opens

The second act, a comedy by director Quentin Dupieux, with Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel and Raphaël Quenard, will open the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 14, the organizers announced on Wednesday. This 1h16 film, scheduled out of competition, will be released simultaneously in theaters.

At 49 years old, Quentin Dupieux has established himself as one of the references in absurd humor, with 13 feature films in 17 years. Also an electro figure under the pseudonym Mr Oizo, over the past three years he has been able to broaden his audience with works like Incredible but true, Yannick and Daaaaaali.

The second act is his first collaboration with Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel, and his fourth with Raphaël Quenard, whom he revealed in Yannick. The film is “a new mise en abyme around the work of the actor”, underlined the Festival in a press release.

The Cannes Film Festival, which will take place from Tuesday May 14 to Saturday May 25, is due to announce its official selection on April 11. Among the most anticipated films, and which could be selected, a mega project by Francis Ford Coppola with Adam Driver and Forest Whitaker, Megalopolis, the adaptation of the book Limonov by the Frenchman Emmanuel Carrère by the Russian Kirill Serebrennikov, or even a musical comedy by Frenchman Jacques Audiard in the world of drug trafficking in Mexico.

The Festival chose the American Greta Gerwig, director of Barbie, one of last year's biggest blockbusters, to chair the jury. The latter will elect the film which will succeed the 2023 Palme d'Or, Anatomy of a Fall, by French director Justine Triet.

Cannes had already announced a first film, out of competition, Furiosa, based on the postapocalyptic saga Mad Max by Georges Miller, as well as the name of the mistress of the opening and closing ceremonies, actress Camille Cottin.