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Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #32. Quentin Dupieux’s Incroyable mais vrai

Published on January 12, 2022

Incroyable mais vrai

A project that has slightly moved up our depth chart, Quentin Dupieux’s ninth feature film was more than ready to go for 2021 – but Incroyable mais vrai stayed on the sidelines perhaps while the filmmaker was putting the first touches on his 10th feature (#36 on our countdown). Completed in September of 2020, it was announced today that the film’s French distributor will release the film in June – so Cannes is a strong possibility. This stars Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel and Anaïs Demoustier.

Gist: Alain and Marie moved to the suburb house of their dreams. But the real estate agent warned them : what is in the basement may well change their lives forever.

Release Date/Prediction: With a June 15th domestic release date for the film – this is headed to Cannes with a bullet.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).