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Cinema: the single reel of Albert Dupontel, back with “Second tour”
Albert Dupontel’s latest film is released this Wednesday, October 25. “Second round” tells the story of a presidential candidate. Who is this director whose work is praised by the public and professionals? – (France 2)
Albert Dupontel’s latest film is released this Wednesday, October 25. “Second round” tells the story of a presidential candidate. Who is this director whose work is praised by the public and professionals?
A preview of an Albert Dupontel film, it’s a must-see for fans, always impatient to dive back into the director’s world. “A somewhat allegorical universe, it is often dreamlike“, describes a spectator. In Second Round, Cécile de France plays a hotheaded journalist. She is asked to cover the campaign of a candidate she finds suspicious. “Albert writes to make his actors jubilant. So with this character, a real comic book heroine, a little zany, I was really able to rejoice“, confides the actress.
Freedom of the press, ecology and the value of political speech
Albert Dupontel, author, director and actor, is omnipresent. In this film, he portrays himself as a not very orthodox presidential candidate, in a very “properly“. The film addresses freedom of the press, ecology and even the value of political speech, with a humor that Dupontel never deviates from.