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  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary In the alternate reality of the LA entertainment industry, a cameraman (Alain Chabat) has 48 hours to pull off the impossible: find the world's greatest groan sound effect for the movie he dreams of directing or it doesn't get made. As he embarks on a hilariously bizarre odyssey, fact and fiction, reality and dreams collide in a surreal ...

Directed By: Quentin Dupieux

Written By: Quentin Dupieux

  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2015
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 35 m

Reality

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
55
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
7.9
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Summary In the alternate reality of the LA entertainment industry, a cameraman (Alain Chabat) has 48 hours to pull off the impossible: find the world's greatest groan sound effect for the movie he dreams of directing or it doesn't get made. As he embarks on a hilariously bizarre odyssey, fact and fiction, reality and dreams collide in a surreal ...

Directed By: Quentin Dupieux

Written By: Quentin Dupieux

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
55
57% Positive
4 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
14% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
55
57% Positive
4 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
14% Negative
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75
May 1, 2015
The film will only work for you if you expect it not to make sense, and enjoy jokes that go on and on and then suddenly (and repeatedly) jack-knife off a cliff or two.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
67
Apr 29, 2015
A viewer can’t help but take it as an artistic statement, even though nothing — not even the nods to Mulholland Dr. — suggests that Dupieux’s motivated by anything more than a hankering to make something weird and funny. He succeeds on the first part, and fitfully accomplishes the second.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW

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88% Positive
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67
Apr 29, 2015
Too transitory and too undemanding to be termed a mindfuck, for Reality minditch seems about right, and it's one you even occasionally get the pleasure of scratching.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW
63
Apr 26, 2015
Quentin Dupieux has a talent for rendering otherworldly concepts banal in a manner that reflects the stymied desires of his characters.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 30, 2015
Each narrative fissure further thwarts meaning. The most you can ask from a movie as nullifying as this one is that it offer wit and visual panache, which it does.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 29, 2015
The accumulation of weird incidents and fake-outs doesn’t lead anywhere productive. That’s the problem with Dupieux’s vacant brand of surrealism: If you just keep pulling out the rug, there will never be anything to stand on.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
30
May 14, 2015
The bizarro plot threads, and dippy characters fail to connect in any rewarding way, resulting in a largely unfunny film that proves as repetitive and tedious as the 1971 Philip Glass snippet that provides its entire score.
By Michael Rechtshaffen FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Realitism Films, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Sofica Manon 2, Sofica Manon 3, La Banque Postale Images 5, La Banque Postale Image 6, Versus Production, Canal+, Rubber Films, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, Inver Invest, Noodles
Release Date Apr 30, 2015
Duration 1 h 35 m
Rating Unrated
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Website http://diaphana.fr/film/realite
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Awards

Ghent International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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