I first learned of Quentin Dupieux when I saw his 2010 absurdist black comedy "Rubber" (about a tire on a killing spree). Now comes "Réalité" ("Reality" in English), about a director who has to find the ideal groan of pain for a proposed movie. At least that's the main plot. Throughout the movie, reality, fiction and dreams keep overlapping so that you're not sure just what is real. David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive" is probably the only other movie that messes with your mind this much.This movie won't be for everyone. You have to be willing to accept the repeated shift from apparent reality to fiction, often taking place simultaneously. Assuming that you enjoy a movie that deliberately confuses you, you'll like this one. It's not like anything that you've ever seen.PS: Quentin Dupieux is an electronic musician who goes by Mr. Oizo (a corruption of the French word for bird).

Yesterday I saw Réalité for the second time. And I found it even better than the first time. So I had to upgrade my rating from 9 to 10. Why? Well, because this film is... genius... funny... and a great trip altogether:The main story is about a guy (Jason) who has an idea for a film, but all he needs to get a contract signed, is the perfect (death)scream. He strains every nerve to obtain this sound. Then there is also the story of the producer who offers to sign this film, but who is also working on another film. This film, directed by cult director 'Zog', is very intriguing, compelling, a little bit artsy, and eventually the stories get mixed up with each other, and other stories. These other stories involving a cooking studio, a guy who likes dressing up like a woman, and a few more.Boy, did I had a good time watching this movie! The absurd dialogues, the details, the music, the plots mixing together. It had me glued in my chair like Jason.The acting is very good. The filming as well.I believe perhaps one would enjoy the movie more if you're bilingual (French-English)But all in all, one of the most sophisticated movies I've seen in a long time. If you like David Lynch, you will like Réalité

i took this to my must watch list only because i found that it had an interesting story line, an interesting director with sort of films like this in his filmography but to utter surprise it wasn't that good to be that bad or vice versa. it had simple, accurate yet understanding going till around an hour after which it lost its track in such a way that when i watched the trailer, reviewers commented that it was eight and half story in an inception form. i just don't know how could two brilliantly written and executed stories can be compared to this where every one from the audience to the actors and the writers and the directors is confused to where and how the story is going. it's good that they had a straight line thought but it was bad that they tend to divide it into multiple lines going nowhere. i hope if you are going to watch this, make sure you have enough brains to know what goes on after that first hour because if you don't then keep losing yourself to this interesting yet not able to generate that interest movie.

I've watched quite a lot of "mind blowing" movies and the way "Reality" blew my mind is similar only to "The Sea That Thinks", but it has something extra: humour. At the end, when the little girl throws the blue video cassette in the garbage I was laughing so hard and I was thinking "Oh, another classic Dupieux movie!". I was imagining myself giving it 10 stars out of ten but then I discovered that was not really the ending scene, it is followed by other two scenes which, apparently, have no other role than playing with our minds and destroying our cult-vision of Quentin. WTF, now I can't recommend it anymore to any of my pretentious cinephile friends. I really think of editing a copy, cut out those scenes and watch the whole movie again like it supposed to be in my mind. I am aware I sound like those guys who comment on movie sites things like "oooh, why that bad guy doesn't die earlier? the movie would be so much better without him... hey, pixar, what are you thinking? you don't want us to like the movie???"