CQ

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CQ

R,

2001,

1h 31m,

Comedy

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67%

76 Reviews

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69%

5,000+ Ratings

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76 Reviews

69%

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5,000+ Ratings

Paris, 1969. A director's obsession with the actress who plays the sexy secret agent Dragonfly (Angela Lindvall) has clouded his judgment and the film has no ending. A young American (Jeremy Davies), in Paris to document his life on film with total honesty, is brought in to finish the movie with a bang. This proves to be difficult when the line between his fantasy life and reality becomes blurred, and he too finds himself seduced by the charms of Dragonfly.

Critics Consensus

CQ is a stylish and fun homage to campy 1960s flicks.

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Marc Savlov

Austin Chronicle

Aug 25, 2002

3.5/5

It may not be art, but it's vastly more entertaining than anything Coppola senior has done in far too long.

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Loren King

Chicago Tribune

Jul 20, 2002

3/4

A film that is visually compelling and highly entertaining in an in-jokey sort of way.

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Terry Lawson

Detroit Free Press

Jul 12, 2002

3/4

Coppola's observational and satirical skills are impressive.

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Sean Axmaker

Stream on Demand

Jan 20, 2026

Think of it as an American 8 1/2 with echoes of Day For Night and stirred through with French New Wave, Italian cool, and British mod. If the film is slight, the details are right ...

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Joe Leydon

The Moving Picture Show

Jul 19, 2014

Coppola and his production team have taken meticulous care to faithfully copy the costumes, production designs, peek-a-boo sexiness and budget-crunched special effects of their source material.

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Josh Larsen

LarsenOnFilm

Feb 2, 2013

3/4

Coppola gives CQ a sense of style and humor that makes the navel-gazing bearable.

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Rey S

Jan 28, 2018

Jeremy Davies stars as a young filmmaker in 1960's Paris who is editing a euro sci-fi spy flick "Dragonfly" while filming everything in his life to make a more personal film. When the director of "Dragonfly" (Gerard Depardieu) clashes with it's producer (Giancarlo Giannini) over the film's end, he is fired and Davies is given the opportunity to finish the film. He finds himself obsessed with the film's beautiful star (Angela Lindvall). Roman Coppola clearly loves European genre cinema of the mid-60's and this film is stuffed with visual references to everything from "Barbarella" and "Danger: Diabolik" to "Contempt" and "David Holzman's Diary". The problem is that he seems to have no clear idea what to do with this film beyond the layers of reference. He sets up a situation where Davies is mired in self-doubt, mistreating his girlfriend, making a vapid self-indulgent film and lusting after another woman, and just pulls a happy ending out of his ass, undoing what little the film had been about. That said, if you share his obsessions, there's a lot to enjoy here from John Philip Law's appearance in the film within the film to Giannini's performance as a stand-in for Dino de Laurentiis.

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Gérard Depardieu

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Synopsis

Paris, 1969. A director's obsession with the actress who plays the sexy secret agent Dragonfly (Angela Lindvall) has clouded his judgment and the film has no ending. A young American (Jeremy Davies), in Paris to document his life on film with total honesty, is brought in to finish the movie with a bang. This proves to be difficult when the line between his fantasy life and reality becomes blurred, and he too finds himself seduced by the charms of Dragonfly.

Director: Roman Coppola
Producer: Gary Marcus
Screenwriter: Roman Coppola
Distributor: United Artists, MGM Home Entertainment
Production Co: Luxembourg Film Fund, Delux Productions, United Artists, American Zoetrope, CQ Productions, Sawyer Productions
Rating: R (Some Nudity|Language)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 12, 2001, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 16, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA): $411.0K
Runtime: 1h 31m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, Dolby A, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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