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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 all 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. 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.

• Albert Dupontel
• Marcia Romano
• Camille Fontaine
• Cécile de France
• Nicolas Marié
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• Nathalie Pove

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• Trivia The character of Gus was written specifically for Nicolas Marié , making it his eighth collaboration with Albert Dupontel as director.
• 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.
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Journaliste politique en disgrâce placée à la rubrique football, Mlle Pove est sollicitée pour suivre l’entre-deux tours de la campagne présidentielle. Le favori est Pierre-Henry Mercier, héritier d'une puissante famille française et novice en politique. Troublée par ce candidat qu'elle a connu moins lisse, Mlle Pove se lance dans une enquête aussi étonnante que jubilatoire.

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Director Albert Dupontel talks VFX on ‘Second Tour’

As ‘second tour’ continues its theatrical run across france, director albert dupontel discusses the pivotal role of vfx in shaping the narrative of his latest latest feature film..

Albert Dupontel’s latest feature film, ‘ Second Tour ‘, was theatrically released in France two weeks ago. On its first day, it ranked as the best opening in Paris and has since remained in the TOP 10 films in France.

In an exclusive interview with the French cinema website Allociné , Albert Dupontel, renowned for his constant concern for image and aesthetics, reveals some behind-the-scenes secrets of his new feature film. He discusses VFX, ChatGPT, and scene shot with an iPhone, mentioning that new technologies have helped him shaping the narrative of the film.

Out of 2,000 shots in the film, 1,300 of them required VFX. [...] Everything is fake! This film is a big, continuous lie! [...] There weren't 10,000 extras in the shot. There were 300; we made it 10,000. I didn't have an eagle, and we created one, etc., etc.

As Albert Dupontel stated in the film’s press kit, he wanted to emphasize the concept of a ‘contemporary tale’ in ‘ Second Tour ‘. To achieve this, he used ‘contrasting lighting,’ ‘camera movements,’ ‘varied focal lengths within the same scene,’ ‘frequently hyper-cut editing,’ and ‘prominent music’.

In the interview, the director mentioned the precious support he received from Director of Photography Julien Poupard and VFX Supervisor Cedric Fayolle.

For 20 years, I have been working with Cédric Fayolle, VFX supervisor, and in the role of supervisor, I remember every time there is 'super,' an adjective that well summarizes his artistic and professional abilities. He gets involved in the project from the earliest versions of the script and prepares the VFX aspect of the project well in advance.

It was a great pleasure for our teams to work under the supervision of Cedric Fayolle on ‘ Second Tour ‘.  We are grateful that he trusted The Yard’s experience to deliver high-quality VFX on such a high number of shots and to contribute to further enhance his long-term relationship with Albert Dupontel.

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Second tour.

Directed by Albert Dupontel

A disgraced political journalist placed in the soccer section, Miss Pove is asked to follow the presidential campaign in progress. The front-runner is a fifty-year-old heir to a powerful French family and a political novice. Troubled by this candidate, whom she has known to be less smooth in the past, Miss Pove embarks on an investigation that is as surprising as it is jubilant.

Albert Dupontel Cécile de France Nicolas Marié David Marsais Bertrand Usclat Jackie Berroyer Philippe Uchan Bouli Lanners Guillemette Buffet Philippe Duquesne Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus Uri Gavriel Catherine Schaub-Abkarian Scali Delpeyrat Christiane Millet Florence Monge Magali Bonat

Director Director

Albert Dupontel

Producer Producer

Catherine Bozorgan

Writers Writers

Albert Dupontel Camille Fontaine Marcia Romano

Casting Casting

Anaïs Duran

Editor Editor

Christophe Pinel

Cinematography Cinematography

Julien Poupard

Assistant Director Asst. Director

Alexandra Gayzal

Additional Photography Add. Photography

Gaspard Soboul

Production Design Production Design

Mathieu Junot

Special Effects Special Effects

Alexis Blanc Max Garnier Sara Helminger

Visual Effects Visual Effects

Diego Cordier-Royer Cédric Fayolle Sébastien Nebout

Stunts Stunts

Julien Bruant Adrien Jeunemaitre Ben Milord

Composer Composer

Christophe Julien

Sound Sound

Cyril Holtz Damien Lazzerini

Costume Design Costume Design

Mimi Lempicka

Manchester Films ADCB Films Stadenn Productions Pathé Canal+ La Banque Postale Image Ciné+ France 2 Cinéma France Télévisions Cofimage Logical Content Ventures La Région Île-de-France CNC

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09 jun 2023, 01 dec 2023, 25 oct 2023, 01 nov 2023, 22 feb 2024, 12 apr 2024, releases by country.

• Premiere Hong Kong French Film Festival

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Review by Axel

Une pensée émue pour David Marsais qu’on a fait venir pour qu’il se branle et fasse un snap.

Review by thibz_td ★★½ 2

j'ouvre une cellule de crise pour toutes les victimes de ce plan aigle en CGI

Review by clim ★★½

tsais le film politique qui politique pas

Review by Padulol ★½ 4

À un moment donné, Dupontel fait un plan numérique dégueulasse complètement hors sujet, montrant un aigle pêchant un poisson. En plus d'être ridiculement laid, l'oiseau n'est pas un aigle ordinaire, mais un putain de pygargue, espèce endémique des États-Unis. L'information ne devait pas être si compliquée à trouver, car il s'agit du putain d'emblème de leur pays !

Ne mettez pas de pygargues dans les films français, s'il vous plaît.

Review by Mathilde Lacombe ★★★ 10

Bizarre le bisou non consenti mon reuf

Review by Ben ★★★

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Review by Cherryfuzz ★★★ 2

Albert Dupontel ferait un bon sosie de Jean Castex

Review by Tom ★½ 1

tourné avec le flou d’arrière-plan d’un huawei et monté avec un filtre insta

Review by Nowki ★★½ 4

On passe un bon moment, devant ce film sarcastique, drôle et plutôt cynique.  Rien de transcendant, que ce soit au niveau du scénario, du message ( Dupontel affirme lui-même ne pas spécialement vouloir en  faire passer) ou de la mise en scène. C’est vraiment pas nul non plus, juste un chouette moment plutôt drôle, avec un Nicolas Marié des grands soirs et une Cécile de France  très intéressante! 

Le sommet de ma soirée est d’avoir proposé à ce cher Mr Dupontel  un Pierre/feuille/ciseau avec l’enjeu de jouer dans un de ses films si je gagnais, et au moment de sortir ma meilleure pierre, il m’a sortit son meilleur doigt d’honneur! Bien joué à lui, c’est le seul truc supérieur au puit dans ce jeu! J’ai rien pu faire, mais on a quand même bien rigolé.

Review by Lucie ★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Pov : t'es l'enfant qui mange le chamallow...

Review by Victor Bonnefoy ★★★

Comment un film peut alterner les plus beaux plans de cinéma de l'année avec les plus laids ? Les paraboles politiques malines avec les plus bêtes ? Le pire et le meilleur de Dupontel ? Un grand écart qui rate autant qu'il réussit.

Review by méli ★★★

y’a pas à utiliser autant de fonds verts wsh

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Second Tour is a 2023 French Black Comedy film directed by Albert Dupontel .

Pierre-Henry Mercier (Dupontel) is candidate for President of the French Republic. He performed well in the first round of the election, and may be president if he wins the second round two weeks later. Unlike the usual candidates, he is new in politics.

Miss Pove (Cécile de France) and Gus (Nicolas Marié) are journalists. Pove is a former political reporter but she has been assigned to covering football as punishment for reporting on a big shareholder of her company. She is now assigned to cover Mercier but is supposed to only ask very bland questions and put him in good light.

She secretly disobeys, as she is determined to find some dirt on him and make him fail the elections. She uncovers quite a few secrets, but also finds out that he is not so much of a bad politician as she thinks.

This film provides examples of:

• The Cracker : Pove calls a hacker when she needs something illegal. He never seems to leave his computer and keeps asking her for a date. She quite obviously dislikes him.
• Heroic Sacrifice : Mercier makes sure to be shot by an assassin in order to protect his twin brother from them.
• Intrepid Reporter : Pove goes quite far, disobeying her direction, asking very blunt questions and going through illegal means to do her investigations. She is however more interested in destroying Mercier politically, that in revealing the truth.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed : Pierre-Henry Mercier is quite similar to Emmanuel Macron especially how he appeared in French politics in 2017. He comes from a wealthy family and is new in French politics, unlike usual candidates.
• Punishment Detail : Miss Pove is normally a political reporter but she has been assigned to covering football . This is punishment for reporting on a big shareholder of her company.
• Reading Lips : Gus is a big football nerd. He learned to read lips from watching football players insult each other on screen, in several languages.
• Separated at Birth : Pove finds out that Mercier has a twin brother . She later discovers that he doesn't know that .
• The Reveal : Pove uncovers many secrets about Mercier. He happens to not know all of them.
• Thriller : While being a Black Comedy , this film also contains many elements of a political thriller, with secrets, reveals, assassination attempts and so on.
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Second tour

Journaliste politique en disgrâce placée à la rubrique football, Mlle Pove est sollicitée pour suivre la campagne présidentielle en cours. Le favori est un quinquagénaire, héritier d'une puissante famille française et novice en politique. Troublée par ce candidat qu'elle a connu moins lisse par le passé, Mlle Pove se lance dans une enquête aussi étonnante que jubilatoire.

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Cécile de france.

Nicolas Marié

Uri Gabriel

Philippe Uchan

Catherine Schaub-Abkarian

Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus

Scali Delpeyrat

Christiane Millet

Florence Monge

Magali Bonat

Bouli Lanners

Philippe Duquesne

Jackie Berroyer

David Marsais

Bertrand Usclat

Johann Dionnet

Sharif Andoura

Julia Molkhou

Mathieu Milella

Clémence Schreiber

Gigi Ledron

Christophe Truchi

Antoine Croset

Mica Smadja

Marie-Bénédicte Cazeneuve

Muriel Gaudin

David Chenaud

Vincent Haquin

Lionel Ruzindana

Julie Brochen

Pascal Sangla

Nicolas Simon

Mounir Margoum

Marie Gili-Pierre

Malvina Plegat

Quentin Pradelle

Pierre Fabiani

Léonore Confino

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• Productions déléguées : Manchester Films , Stadenn Prod.
• Coproductions : Pathé Films , France 2 Cinéma
• Exportation / Vente internationale : Pathé Films
• Distribution France : Pathé Films

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• Productrice déléguée : Catherine Bozorgan
• Scénariste : Albert Dupontel
• Directeur de la photo : Julien Poupard
• Auteur de la musique : Christophe Julien
• Assistant à la réalisation : Brieuc Vanderswalm
• Monteurs : Christophe Pinel , Carlos Pinto
• Ingénieurs du son : Jean Minondo , Gurwal Coïc-Gallas
• Costumes : Mimi Lempicka
• Coproducteur : Ardavan Safaee
• Cadre : Stéphane Martin , François Comparot
• Directrice de production : Claire Langmann
• Attachés de presse (film) : Tony Arnoux , Pablo Garcia-Fons
• Scripte : Jeanne Fontaine-Sarda
• Décors : Mathieu Junot
• Directrice de casting : Anaïs Duran
• Effets spéciaux : Cédric Fayolle
• Mixage : Cyril Holtz , Damien Lazzerini
• Régisseur général : Philippe Le Forestier
• Responsable de la post-production : Christelle Didier

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INTERVIEW - Director and actor Albert Dupontel talks about his latest film ‘Second Round’ (‘Second Tour’), a comedy set in the riveting world of politics and journalism. 📰🏛️ In this exclusive interview, Dupontel opens up about the twists and turns in his new film where intrigue meets ambition. Miss Pove, once a renowned political journalist, now finds herself in the world of sports news. But destiny has a different plan as she’s thrust into the heart of a presidential campaign led by an enigmatic, political rookie with a hidden past. 🕵️‍♀️ The film is now out in theaters in Spain! 🍿🇪🇸 Check out Unifrance.org for release dates ✨ #watchfrench #frenchcinema #AlbertDupontel #comedy #politics

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• Type : Long-métrage
• Genre(s) : Fiction
• Sous-genres : Comédie, Comédie dramatique
• Langue de tournage : Français
• Origine : France
• Nationalité : 100% français (France)
• Année de production : 2023
• Sortie en France : 25/10/2023
• Durée : 1 h 37 min
• Etat d'avancement : Sorti
• Numéro de visa : 156.273
• Visa délivré le : 17/10/2023
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Moscow’s nightlife scene is thriving, and arguably one of the best the world has to offer – top-notch Russian women, coupled with a never-ending list of venues, Moscow has a little bit of something for everyone’s taste. Moscow nightlife is not for the faint of heart – and if you’re coming, you better be ready to go Friday and Saturday night into the early morning.

This comprehensive guide to Moscow nightlife will run you through the nuts and bolts of all you need to know about Moscow’s nightclubs and give you a solid blueprint to operate with during your time in Moscow.

What you need to know before hitting Moscow nightclubs

Prices in moscow nightlife.

Before you head out and start gaming all the sexy Moscow girls , we have to talk money first. Bring plenty because in Moscow you can never bring a big enough bankroll. Remember, you’re the man so making a fuzz of not paying a drink here or there will not go down well.

Luckily most Moscow clubs don’t do cover fees. Some electro clubs will charge 15-20$, depending on their lineup. There’s the odd club with a minimum spend of 20-30$, which you’ll drop on drinks easily. By and large, you can scope out the venues for free, which is a big plus.

Bottle service is a great deal in Moscow. At top-tier clubs, it starts at 1,000$. That’ll go a long way with premium vodka at 250$, especially if you have three or four guys chipping in. Not to mention that it’s a massive status boost for getting girls, especially at high-end clubs.

Without bottle service, you should estimate a budget of 100-150$ per night. That is if you drink a lot and hit the top clubs with the hottest girls. Scale down for less alcohol and more basic places.

Dress code & Face control

Door policy in Moscow is called “face control” and it’s always the guy behind the two gorillas that gives the green light if you’re in or out.

In Moscow nightlife there’s only one rule when it comes to dress codes:

You can never be underdressed.

People dress A LOT sharper than, say, in the US and that goes for both sexes. For high-end clubs, you definitely want to roll with a sharp blazer and a pocket square, not to mention dress shoes in tip-top condition. Those are the minimum requirements to level the playing field vis a vis with other sharply dressed guys that have a lot more money than you do. Unless you plan to hit explicit electro or underground clubs, which have their own dress code, you are always on the money with that style.

Getting in a Moscow club isn’t as hard as it seems: dress sharp, speak English at the door and look like you’re in the mood to spend all that money that you supposedly have (even if you don’t). That will open almost any door in Moscow’s nightlife for you.

Types of Moscow Nightclubs

In Moscow there are four types of clubs with the accompanying female clientele:

High-end clubs:

These are often crossovers between restaurants and clubs with lots of tables and very little space to dance. Heavy accent on bottle service most of the time but you can work the room from the bar as well. The hottest and most expensive girls in Moscow go there. Bring deep pockets and lots of self-confidence and you have a shot at swooping them.

Regular Mid-level clubs:

They probably resemble more what you’re used to in a nightclub: big dancefloors, stages and more space to roam around. Bottle service will make you stand out more but you can also do well without. You can find all types of girls but most will be in the 6-8 range. Your targets should always be the girls drinking and ideally in pairs. It’s impossible not to swoop if your game is at least half-decent.

Basic clubs/dive bars:

Usually spots with very cheap booze and lax face control. If you’re dressed too sharp and speak no Russian, you might attract the wrong type of attention so be vigilant. If you know the local scene you can swoop 6s and 7s almost at will. Usually students and girls from the suburbs.

Electro/underground clubs:

Home of the hipsters and creatives. Parties there don’t mean meeting girls and getting drunk but doing pills and spacing out to the music. Lots of attractive hipster girls if that is your niche. That is its own scene with a different dress code as well.

What time to go out in Moscow

Moscow nightlife starts late. Don’t show up at bars and preparty spots before 11pm because you’ll feel fairly alone. Peak time is between 1am and 3am. That is also the time of Moscow nightlife’s biggest nuisance: concerts by artists you won’t know and who only distract your girls from drinking and being gamed. From 4am to 6am the regular clubs are emptying out but plenty of people, women included, still hit up one of the many afterparty clubs. Those last till well past 10am.

As far as days go: Fridays and Saturdays are peak days. Thursday is an OK day, all other days are fairly weak and you have to know the right venues.

The Ultimate Moscow Nightclub List

Short disclaimer: I didn’t add basic and electro clubs since you’re coming for the girls, not for the music. This list will give you more options than you’ll be able to handle on a weekend.

Preparty – start here at 11PM

Classic restaurant club with lots of tables and a smallish bar and dancefloor. Come here between 11pm and 12am when the concert is over and they start with the actual party. Even early in the night tons of sexy women here, who lean slightly older (25 and up).

The second floor of the Ugolek restaurant is an extra bar with dim lights and house music tunes. Very small and cozy with a slight hipster vibe but generally draws plenty of attractive women too. A bit slower vibe than Valenok.

Very cool, spread-out venue that has a modern library theme. Not always full with people but when it is, it’s brimming with top-tier women. Slow vibe here and better for grabbing contacts and moving on.

High-end: err on the side of being too early rather than too late because of face control.

Secret Room

Probably the top venue at the moment in Moscow . Very small but wildly popular club, which is crammed with tables but always packed. They do parties on Thursdays and Sundays as well. This club has a hip-hop/high-end theme, meaning most girls are gold diggers, IG models, and tattooed hip hop chicks. Very unfavorable logistics because there is almost no room no move inside the club but the party vibe makes it worth it. Strict face control.

Close to Secret Room and with a much more favorable and spacious three-part layout. This place attracts very hot women but also lots of ball busters and fakes that will leave you blue-balled. Come early because after 4am it starts getting empty fast. Electronic music.

A slightly kitsch restaurant club that plays Russian pop and is full of gold diggers, semi-pros, and men from the Caucasus republics. Thursday is the strongest night but that dynamic might be changing since Secret Room opened its doors. You can swoop here but it will be a struggle.

Mid-level: your sweet spot in terms of ease and attractiveness of girls for an average budget.

Started going downwards in 2018 due to lax face control and this might get even worse with the World Cup. In terms of layout one of the best Moscow nightclubs because it’s very big and bottle service gives you a good edge here. Still attracts lots of cute girls with loose morals but plenty of provincial girls (and guys) as well. Swooping is fairly easy here.

I haven’t been at this place in over a year, ever since it started becoming ground zero for drunken teenagers. Similar clientele to Icon but less chic, younger and drunker. Decent mainstream music that attracts plenty of tourists. Girls are easy here as well.

Sort of a Coyote Ugly (the real one in Moscow sucks) with party music and lots of drunken people licking each others’ faces. Very entertaining with the right amount of alcohol and very easy to pull in there. Don’t think about staying sober in here, you’ll hate it.

Artel Bessonitsa/Shakti Terrace

Electronic music club that is sort of a high-end place with an underground clientele and located between the teenager clubs Icon and Gipsy. Very good music but a bit all over the place with their vibe and their branding. You can swoop almost any type of girl here from high-heeled beauty to coked-up hipsters, provided they’re not too sober.

Afterparty: if by 5AM  you haven’t pulled, it’s time to move here.

Best afterparty spot in terms of trying to get girls. Pretty much no one is sober in there and savage gorilla game goes a long way. Lots of very hot and slutty-looking girls but it can be hard to tell apart who is looking for dick and who is just on drugs but not interested. If by 9-10am you haven’t pulled, it is probably better to surrender.

The hipster alternative for afterparties, where even more drugs are in play. Plenty of attractive girls there but you have to know how to work this type of club. A nicer atmosphere and better music but if you’re desperate to pull, you’ll probably go to Miks.

Weekday jokers: if you’re on the hunt for some sexy Russian girls during the week, here are two tips to make your life easier.

Chesterfield

Ladies night on Wednesdays means this place gets pretty packed with smashed teenagers and 6s and 7s. Don’t pull out the three-piece suit in here because it’s a “simpler” crowd. Definitely your best shot on Wednesdays.

If you haven’t pulled at Chesterfield, you can throw a Hail Mary and hit up Garage’s Black Music Wednesdays. Fills up really late but there are some cute Black Music groupies in here. Very small club. Thursday through Saturday they do afterparties and you have an excellent shot and swooping girls that are probably high.

Shishas Sferum

This is pretty much your only shot on Mondays and Tuesdays because they offer free or almost free drinks for women. A fairly low-class club where you should watch your drinks. As always the case in Moscow, there will be cute girls here on any day of the week but it’s nowhere near as good as on the weekend.

In a nutshell, that is all you need to know about where to meet Moscow girls in nightlife. There are tons of options, and it all depends on what best fits your style, based on the type of girls that you’re looking for.

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