THE PIANO ACCIDENT - Comedy Film Fest at FOMO Cinema

Quentin Dupieux | 2025 | France | 1h28m | French audio with English subtitles

Quentin Dupieux’s THE PIANO ACCIDENT is a short, absurd, deadpan comedy built on the kind of premise only he could make feel both stupid and strangely elegant. Dupieux has spent the last decade turning out surreal, low-key comic films that look simple on the surface but keep twisting reality in ways that make you laugh, then pause, then laugh again. Like DEERSKIN, SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING, and INCREDIBLE BUT TRUE, this is another reminder that few filmmakers understand the comic power of nonsense quite like he does.

The story follows Magalie (Adèle Exarchopoulos), an absolute amoral social media influencer who chases clout posting extreme, self-inflicted injuries due to her rare medical condiition. After a serious accident while filming, she retreats to the mountains, but her life unravels when a journalist begins blackmailing her.

WHY I'VE INCLUDED IT IN THIS WEEK’S PROGRAM:
Quentin Dupieux has become one of contemporary cinema’s great specialists in absurdism, and THE PIANO ACCIDENT is another great addition to his growing oeuvre of comedic classics. It is dry, odd, and deliberately flat in its delivery, with jokes that often land through timing, awkwardness, and the sheer confidence of the film’s stupidity. If you like your comedies weird, French, and slightly deranged, this is a must see film in my COMEDY WEEK program.

LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.

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