{"id":620431,"date":"2024-05-14T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-lea-seydoux-and-louis-garrels-slight-satire\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T18:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:55:00","slug":"watch-lea-seydoux-and-louis-garrels-slight-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-lea-seydoux-and-louis-garrels-slight-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch L\u00e9a Seydoux and Louis Garrel&#8217;s Slight Satire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dbe33e8ff9\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3dbe33e8ff9\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-lea-seydoux-and-louis-garrels-slight-satire\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Lea_Seydoux_and_Louis_Garrels_Slight_Satire%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online L\u00e9a Seydoux and Louis Garrel&#8217;s Slight Satire&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-lea-seydoux-and-louis-garrels-slight-satire\/#%E2%80%9CLea_Seydoux_and_Louis_Garrels_Slight_Satire%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;L\u00e9a Seydoux and Louis Garrel&#8217;s Slight Satire&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Lea_Seydoux_and_Louis_Garrels_Slight_Satire%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online L\u00e9a Seydoux and Louis Garrel&#8217;s Slight Satire&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CLea_Seydoux_and_Louis_Garrels_Slight_Satire%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;L\u00e9a Seydoux and Louis Garrel&#8217;s Slight Satire&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    In France, the concept of irony is referred to as \u201cdeuxi\u00e8me degr\u00e9\u201d (second degree), where the \u201cpremier degr\u00e9\u201d is the literal or surface meaning, which can be twisted as audiences read an entirely different, often contrary meaning into the material. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> doesn\u2019t necessarily stop there. There is also \u201ctroisi\u00e8me degr\u00e9,\u201d \u201cquatri\u00e8me degr\u00e9\u201d and so on, as deep as you want to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For absurdist trickster Quentin Dupieux (whose films \u201cDeerskin\u201d and \u201cRubber\u201d have found a cult following), \u201cThe Second Act\u201d presents a frivolous fun-house mirror, in which actors L\u00e9a Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Vincent Lindon and Rapha\u00ebl Quenard play actors playing actors in a pointless romantic comedy. They all know they\u2019re making a bad movie, and one by one, they keep interrupting the shoot to air their personal grievances. But that\u2019s only the beginning in a slender meta-textual doodle selected to kick off the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    When something seemingly <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ed occurs, the director calls \u201ccut,\u201d and they all break character and begin to critique the day\u2019s shoot. One of the stars hits on another. Two of the cast walk off hand in hand. Are they L\u00e9a Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Vincent Lindon and Rapha\u00ebl Quenard in this moment? No, they\u2019re still play-acting, and yet half the joke comes in knowing that a quartet of A-list French stars have agreed to tickle their own images in this way (for example, guess which among them is playing gay).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    At one point, operating at what is at least the fourth degree, Seydoux declares, \u201cReality is reality. Period.\u201d Dupieux has been toying with self-conscious devices for at least a decade, when his film \u201cReality\u201d hit the Venice Film Festival. I hated that movie \u2014 an aggressively unfunny amalgam of sketches in which Alain Chabat played an aspiring filmmaker in search of the perfect groan \u2014 though contrarian French culture mag Les Inrockuptibles just ranked it as Dupieux\u2019s best. You say tomato, I say rotten.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Still, I\u2019ve been intrigued enough by Dupieux to keep up with his singular brand of surrealism (the films typically run between 70 and 80 minutes), and he\u2019s only gotten better with practice. Or else, through repeated exposure, we\u2019ve figured out the weird thing he does and adapted to appreciate it. Either way, the prolific director\u2019s 2023 output, \u201cDaaaaaali!\u201d and \u201cYannick,\u201d were accomplished artistic satires, setting up the kind of meta shtick he\u2019s toying with here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cYannick\u201d centers around a blue-collar worker who interrupts a boring \u201cboulevard\u201d play he\u2019s paid to attend, ordering the actors (at gunpoint) to make it more interesting. Or, as Edouard Baer (one of six actors Dupieux cast in the role of Salvador Dal\u00ed in \u201cDaaaaaali!\u201d) postulates, \u201cNo one is an actor. It\u2019s a nonexistent profession. \u2018Actor\u2019 is a total invention.\u201d The Surrealist painter goes on to complain about the \u201cunbearable\u201d and \u201cappalling banality\u201d of the film-within-a-film he\u2019s making.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Is Dupieux bored with <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>? Clearly not, or he wouldn\u2019t keep making them, but he seems to recognize (more than most) that audiences have gotten savvy to the codes and clich\u00e9s, and so he seeks to subvert them, to weaponize convention against itself, while folding in barbs about the contemporary state of cinema. If the movie they\u2019re making sounds lousy, why not imply that it\u2019s the first to be written and directed entirely by artificial intelligence?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Improvising the dialogue for a long walk-and-talk scene in which David (Garrel) asks Willy (Quenard) to seduce his clingy girlfriend Florence (Seydoux), the actors riff about political correctness, \u201ccancel culture\u201d and trans identity. \u201cYou can\u2019t say that!\u201d David abruptly interrupts Willy. \u201cWe\u2019re being filmed.\u201d Cute, except the English subtitles have softened the dialogue (the word \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>o\u201d does not mean \u201ctrans,\u201d though sensitivity has scrubbed its equivalent from English usage).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Willy\u2019s lines are meant to be offensive (as David\/Garrel makes clear), and it may be instructive for moviegoers to note who around them laughs and at what \u201clevel.\u201d The third-degree payoff to that exchange comes nearly an hour later in the film. In the meantime, the characters bicker constantly, as when Guillaume (Lindon) storms out of his first scene, complaining that he\u2019s lost faith in the dying art form \u2026 until his agent calls to say he\u2019s been cast in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s next film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The problem with irony at any level is that it makes sincerity almost impossible to judge. The resulting ambiguity serves as a cornerstone of zoomer humor, where the concepts of meta-irony and post-irony obscure the author\u2019s intent so completely that audiences can interpret the material however they like. Some take offense, while others see the too-far elements as deliberate subversions of upsetting concepts. Alas, Dupieux doesn\u2019t take anything too far. If anything, he falls short, getting stuck in the infinite loop of his own cleverness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Alas, breaking the fourth wall is hardly new. Oliver Hardy did it constantly, and Olsen and Johnson took it to new heights in 1941\u2019s \u201cHellzapoppin\u2019.\u201d Meanwhile, with \u201cThe Second Act,\u201d it\u2019s astonishing how long it takes the strategy to get laughs. The breakthrough comes when the extra playing the bartender at The Second Act (the roadside pub where most of the movie takes place) shuffles nervously over to the table with a bottle of wine. Jokes work best when they surprise, so suffice to say, Dupieux milks it for a good 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Oddly enough, considering the film\u2019s tight running time, practically every scene overstays its welcome, including the otherwise smart final shot \u2014 an inspired end punctuation, stretched out like all those \u201ca\u201d\u2019s in \u201cDaaaaaali!\u201d Dupieux\u2019s strategy seems to be flipping or repeating certain punchlines for fresh effect, which is fine for a while, until you realize that neither \u201cThe Second Act\u201d nor those second-degree readings have much to say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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