After sweeping up seven awards, including best film, at the French César Awards in 2021 with Bye Bye Morons, Albert Dupontel is back with Second Round, a delightful political fable as disillusioned as ever.
Miss Pove, a political journalist demoted to reporting the soccer news, is called on to cover the ongoing presidential campaign. The frontrunner is the fifty-something son of a powerful French family who is a total novice in politics.
Intrigued by this candidate, an old acquaintance whose past is less spotless than he claims, Miss Pove undertakes a surprising and oh-so-exulting investigation.
Second Round, the 8th feature film by Albert Dupontel, is dedicated to three significant figures of French cinema: Bertrand Tavernier, Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Michel Deville.
Albert Dupontel explains: “Bertrand Tavernier, in addition to being a great director, was a legendary cinephile who in recent years nourished me with his film knowledge and encouraged me until his last days with lists of films to see. With him, I rewatched films I had little known and discovered other extraordinary ones.”
About Jean-Paul Belmondo, he continues: “He was for me, as for millions of people, an icon of childhood and youth and symbolized the genius of an actor and the pleasure of living. I met him a lot until the end of his life; he impressed me even more because, although diminished, he enlightened everyone he met with optimism and joy.
Finally, Albert Dupontel returns to the choice to dedicate his film to the director Michel Deville, who died in February 2023. “While after Bernie, I thought and felt banned from the profession, he called me to offer me the role of principal of The Sachs’ Disease, thus considering myself for the first time as having acting value. His films are jewels to be seen and rewatched without moderation.”
Genre : Comedy, Drama
Language: French
Subtitles: English
French release : October 25th, 2023
Runtime : 1h 37min
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