An online star, who rose to fame with shocking Jackass-style videos, retreats to a mountain cabin with her personal assistant after a shoot ends in disaster. But her rest is interrupted by a journalist who blackmails the celebrity into giving an interview. Quentin Dupieux’s fifteenth – and perhaps most cynical – film critiques the art industry and a society plagued by loneliness and addicted to spectacle.
Quentin Dupieux started making short films as a teenager, and at the age of 19 sold one of them to Canal+. At the same time, he launched his career in electronic music under the alias Mr. Oizo, releasing his first record in 1996. Since 2007, he has been directing feature films, many of which have been selected by major international festivals, including Cannes, Venice, and Sundance. Scanorama audiences have already been introduced to five of his films. Last year, The Second Act not only opened the Cannes Film Festival, but also launched Scanorama.