{"id":23498,"date":"2025-08-21T16:07:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T16:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/?page_id=23498"},"modified":"2025-10-02T06:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T06:21:07","slug":"the-piano-accident","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/the-piano-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PIANO ACCIDENT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE PIANO ACCIDENT<\/h1>\n

(L’Accident de Piano)<\/h2>\n

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RENOIR THEATER<\/p>\n

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FRIDAY OCTOBER 31<\/strong>
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Lucky Number<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/mk_content_box][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][vc_separator color=”custom” border_width=”2″ css=”” accent_color=”#ea1300″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1757202699794{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]West Coast Premiere <\/span><\/strong>|\u00a0France |\u00a02025\u00a0|\u00a0Dark Comedy |\u00a088\u00a0min\u00a0|\u00a0In French with English subtitles |<\/p>\n

Directed by: <\/strong>Quentin Dupieux
\nWritten by: <\/strong>Quentin Dupieux
\nProduced by: <\/strong>Hugo S\u00e9lignac, Antoine Lafon & Nicolas Dumont (Chi-Fou-Mi Productions), Arte France Cin\u00e9ma, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes Cin\u00e9ma
\nCinematography:\u00a0<\/strong>Quentin Dupieux
\n<\/strong>Original Score: <\/strong>Quentin Dupieux
\nFilm Editing:<\/strong> Quentin Dupieux
\nCast:<\/strong> Ad\u00e8le Exarchopoulos (Magalie Moreau),\u00a0J\u00e9r\u00f4me Commandeur (Patrick Balandras),\u00a0Sandrine Kiberlain (Simone Herzog), Karim Leklou (Rom\u00e9o), Gabin Visona (Karim), Georgia Scalliet (Julia Balandras)
\nInternational Sales: <\/strong>Lucky Number<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Social-media sensation Magalie Moreau, famous for posting shocking videos of herself on the internet, decides to lie low in a swanky mountain chalet following a mysterious accident that occurs during her most recent video shoot. However, her peaceful retreat is disrupted when a pushy journalist begins to blackmail her. Director Quentin Dupieux<\/strong> is back with another ferociously dark comedy, featuring a go-for-broke performance by the amazing Ad\u00e8le Exarchopoulos<\/strong>, and training his keen comic eye on the excesses, emptiness and celebrity culture of our modern world. In the words of the absurdist-filmmaker-par-excellence himself, “The Piano Accident<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is no more absurd than real life.”<\/p>\n

Director’s biography<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Iconoclastic French filmmaker, electronic musician, and DJ Quentin Dupieux<\/strong> began making short films at the age of 18 and has gone on to direct fourteen pretty surreal features. He not only writes and directs them all; he shoots and edits them, as well… and for many years even composed their scores. His earliest features \u2014 his breakout film Rubber<\/em> (2010); Wrong<\/em> (2012), which premiered in Sundance; Wrong Cops<\/em> (2013), which premiered in Cannes; and Reality<\/em>\u00a0(2014), which premiered in Venice \u2014 were all produced in the United States. His French productions include Keep an Eye Out<\/em> (2018); Deerskin<\/em> (COLCOA 2019), that year’s opening film at the Cannes Director’s Fortnight; Mandibles<\/em>\u00a0(2020), screened out of competition in Cannes; Incredible But True<\/em>\u00a0(2022); Smoking Causes Coughing<\/em> (2022); Yannick<\/em> (2023); Daaaaaali! (2024), which also premiered in Venice; and The Second Act<\/em> (TAFFF 2024), the opening film of last year’s Cannes Film Festival. The Piano Accident<\/em><\/strong> was released to great acclaim in France in July.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/screenshot-2025-09-28-at-10.00.31.png” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/win-a-trip-to-paris\/” target=”_blank” align=”center”][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/the-piano-accident.jpg” image_size=”full” frame_style=”gray_border” align=”center”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1755792306880{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] THE PIANO ACCIDENT (L’Accident de Piano)   [\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”custom” css=”” accent_color=”#660084″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_content_box heading=”CINEMA COMPETITION – NEW HORIZONS”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1757192784683{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] RENOIR THEATER Comedy, Drama [\/vc_column_text][\/mk_content_box][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_custom_box corner_radius=”15″ bg_color=”#dbcce2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758568232623{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] FRIDAY OCTOBER 31 10:35 pm [\/vc_column_text][\/mk_custom_box][mk_padding_divider size=”10″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/order-tickets.jpg” image_size=”full” link=”https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.eventive.org\/schedule\/68d7a488d1f02cbef0f8de6d” target=”_blank” align=”center”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][mk_content_box heading=”PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH:”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758903408114{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23498","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23498"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24856,"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23498\/revisions\/24856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericanfrenchfilmfestival.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}