Incredible but True
2022 film directed by Quentin Dupieux
Incredible but True (French: Incroyable mais vrai) is a 2022 French-Belgian black comedy film written and directed by Quentin Dupieux. It stars Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel, and Anaïs Demoustier. In the film, Alain (Chabat) and Marie (Drucker) see their lives turned upside down after moving into a new home which has a mysterious tunnel in the basement.
Plot
Alain, who works as an insurance broker, looks to buy a new house in suburban France with his wife, Marie. The estate agent, Franck Chaise, reveals that a tunnel in the basement of one house causes anyone who enters to travel 12 hours into the future, but become 3 days younger. Buoyed by this, Marie convinces Alain to buy the home.
Alain invites his boss, Gérard, and his girlfriend Jeanne to visit the home; Marie spends most of the encounter in the tunnel, which she goes onto regularly use. At dinner, under pressure from Jeanne, Gérard reveals he had an electronic penis transplanted, which he controls through his smartphone. A few days later, Gérard injures his penis after falling over a shooting range; as it was transplanted in Japan, Gérard travels to the country to repair it and he instructs Alain to inform Jeanne he is going on a business trip. At the bookstore where she works, Jeanne makes unrequited sexual advances to Alain.
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