Yannick

Yannick (2023)

In the middle of a performance of the play "Le Cocu", a bad boulevard comedy at a Parisian theatre, Yannick gets up and interrupts the show to take the evening back in hand.

Date of release
2023-08-02
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (754)
Runtime
1h 7m
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Director
Quentin Dupieux

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Théâtre Déjazet

Yannick is a 2023 French black comedy film written, shot, edited and directed by Quentin Dupieux. The film stars Raphaël Quenard as a heckler who takes a Parisian theatre hostage and rewrites the play under his own direction. The production of the film was kept secret until a month before its theatrical release on 2 August 2023 by Diaphana Distribution. It screened in the international competition at the Locarno Film Festival the next day.

Production

Yannick was directed by French musician and filmmaker Quentin Dupieux, who also wrote the screenplay. It is his 12th feature film. The film was produced by Dupieux, Thomas and Mathieu Verhaeghe for Atelier de Production, and Hugo Selignac for Chi-Fou-Mi Productions.

Rising actor Raphaël Quenard, known for Les Mauvais Garçons, Final Cut and Junkyard Dog, plays the disappointed theatergoer Yannick in the title role. He previously featured with supporting roles in Dupieux's fantasy comedy Mandibles (2020) alongside Adèle Exarchopoulos and Grégoire Ludig and in Dupieux's science fiction comedy Smoking Causes Coughing (2022). Pio Marmaï, Blanche Gardin and Sébastien Chassagne play the three actors on stage.

The film was shot inside the Théâtre Déjazet in Paris, located in the city's 3rd arrondissement. The venue has 1,000 seats and has been in existence since 1851, making it one of the oldest theaters in Paris. Production for the film was fully secret, with principal photography lasting six days. Dupieux served as director of photography and also edited the film.

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