Second Tour

2023
1h 35m

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Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir from powerful French family. Troubled by this candidate, Pove embarks on an investiga... Read allPove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir from powerful French family. Troubled by this candidate, Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir from powerful French family. Troubled by this candidate, Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.

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Trivia
Albert Dupontel dedicated this movie to three people:
Bertrand Tavernier, a French director and movie lover, who was giving him lists of movies to watch right until his death;
Jean-Paul Belmondo, an iconic French actor whose "joie de vivre" greatly impressed him;
Michel Deville, a French director who cast him in his movie, La maladie de Sachs (1999), and thus gave him value as an actor, after the release of Dupontel's first movie, Bernie (1996), made Dupontel feel depressed and outcast in the French movie business.

Goofs
The entire premise of the movie relies on the idea that being elected President of the French Republic enables you to choose your own government and pass any law you want. While Emmanuel Macron works very hard to give this impression, this is not true at all. The real power or the French Republic lies in the National Assembly, which can overthrow the government and decide the laws to pass, entirely sidelining the President and tuning him/her into not a mostly ceremonial figure, as the cohabitations (i.e. a President from Party A, but a government from Party B) under François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac have shown. In real life, a newly-elected President facing a hostile parliament would have to immediately start campaigning for the legislative elections (usually less than two months after the runoff these days) to make sure they would have a majority of députés (congressmen) in the National Assembly with which they would rule the country (the députés can even override whatever the Senate sends their way). A President suddenly changing their minds about their ideology would certainly not sit well with their electoral base nor with the backing political party, and all this would make for a particularly interesting election cycle.

Connections
References Bobby Kennedy for President (2018)

Soundtracks
Cessate, Omai Cessate
RV 684
Composed by Antonio Vivaldi
From the soundtrack of Lady Vengeance (2005)
Interpreted by Moho Baroque Ensemble

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8/10

A very good Dupontel, can be the best since 10 years.

Dupontel is always a sensitive, intelligent, funny, crazy and sometimes angry cinema. I was no fan more than that of goodbye the idiots, even if I had spent a pleasant moment, Goodbye up there too, these last two films made me spend a nice moment but not enough striking. In fact I really like Albert, he is one of the few who dares to be sensitive and do the staging, so even if I find his old films a little on the side I never really wanted to hit him, because after all, every time it's well done and it's not so bad.

This time, with Second Round, I think he is waiting for a real form of maturity and it works much better for me. So if the film remains very close to his usual style, he dares here to face a subject much more difficult than usual, it is more serious and straightforward. Albert exposes himself a little more to the image of his character on a very important social subject.

Indeed if the character is double like its title it is not a coincidence, Albert no longer seems to want to run away by finally launching a real little missile on the company with this film that does badly good and reminds, that we must never give up. I wait for the next one with a certain impatience, because it is not very far, to make films that dare to put a head blow as in his youth but with this time, much more maturity in these subjects.