| Reality | |
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| Director: | Quentin Dupieux |
| Cinematography: | Quentin Dupieux |
| Editing: | Quentin Dupieux |
| Music: | Thomas Garner |
| Runtime: | 87 minutes |
| Budget: | €1.8 million[1] |
| Gross: | $429,220[2] |
Reality (fr|'''Réalité''') is a 2014 surreal comedy-drama film written and directed by Quentin Dupieux. It stars Alain Chabat, Jonathan Lambert, Élodie Bouchez, Eric Wareheim, John Glover and Jon Heder.
The film premiered in the Horizons section of the 71st Venice International Film Festival on 28 August 2014.[3] It was released in France on 18 February 2015 by Diaphana Distribution and in Belgium on 25 February 2015 by O'Brother Distribution.[4] [5]
A wannabe director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film. Meanwhile, reality, dreams, and fiction repeatedly overlap.
Thomas Bangalter, husband of Bouchez and former member of Daft Punk, has a cameo in the film. He plays the patient in the dermatologist's waiting room.[6]
The soundtrack consists of only the first five minutes of "Music with Changing Parts" by Philip Glass.[7]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 64% based on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 6.1/10.[8] The French cinema site AlloCiné gave the film a rating of 3.6/5 stars based on 32 reviews.[9]