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New Film Follows Low-Poly Man Convinced He’s Living In A PlayStation Game

Le Vertige is Quentin Dupieux's animated debut presented at Cannes Film Festival, following a man convinced he's living in a low-polygon PlayStation game while his skeptical friends dismiss his simulation theory. The film, created using Blender, satirizes the pursuit of realism in CGI and continues Dupieux's signature style of absurdist, meta-fictional filmmaking.

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Le Vertige is Quentin Dupieux's animated debut presented at Cannes Film Festival, following a man convinced he's living in a low-polygon PlayStation game while his skeptical friends dismiss his simulation theory. The film, created using Blender, satirizes the pursuit of realism in CGI and continues Dupieux's signature style of absurdist, meta-fictional filmmaking.

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absurdist-cinema · animation · cannes-film-festival · low-poly-graphics · meta-fiction · video-game-simulation · quentin-dupieux

Key entities

Quentin Dupieux (person, 0.99) · Alain Chabat (person, 0.95) · Zack Kotzer (person, 0.9) · Kirsten Stewart (person, 0.85) · Woody Harrelson (person, 0.85) · Tim Heidecker (person, 0.85) · Eric Wareheim (person, 0.85) · Cannes Film Festival (event, 0.99) · Blender (technology, 0.95) · PlayStation (technology, 0.95) · low-polygon graphics (concept, 0.9) · simulation-theory (concept, 0.9) · AI-generated-imagery (concept, 0.85)

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analysis · language en · status final

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claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/be@0.1.0, confidence 0.85, 31 May 2026