Third Time’s A Charm: Dupieux & Exarchopoulos Re-team on “L’Avant-dernière séance”

After collaborating with the other half of the Blue is the Warmest Color tandem, Quentin Dupieux is re-teaming with actress Adèle Exarchopoulos for L’Avant-dernière séance (English translation: “The Penultimate Session”), set to shoot in early 2025 and likely premiering that same year perhaps around a Locarno or Venice Film Festival playdate. Continuing in his surrealist comedy vein, Dupieux recently showcased Le Deuxième acte (read ★★½ review), the Cannes opener in May – it received mixed reviews and we advanced that “ultimately, the thoughts it provokes are more inherently interesting than the film’s self-obsessed vein of self-awareness”. This will be his fourteenth feature film and a third project with Exarchopoulos after Mandibles (2020) and Fumer fait tousser (2022). No word on the production company involved or exact shooting location.