Quentin Dupieux
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Cannes 2024: The Second Act, An Unfinished Film and Wild Diamond
“Last year, as you know, we had a few polemics,” admitted Cannes General Delegate Thierry Fremaux at the opening of the 77th edition on Tuesday. “This year we decided to host a festival without polemics to make sure that the main interest for us all to be here is cinema.” With ignorance this willful, you have to laugh. Cannes has gotten so used to sweeping its problems under the rug that no one seems to know when, how, or if the Sous les Écrans la Dèche strike–-which would affect some 200 projectionists, programmers, floor managers, and press officers working the […]
by Blake Williams on May 16, 2024 -
“It’s Not Precisely an Image, It’s More Like a Sensation”: Quentin Dupieux on Incredible But True
One of the funniest movies of 2022 is Quentin Dupieux’s Incredible But True. On November 8, it’s available on streaming and Blu-ray from Arrow, but as far as I know, it has no American distributor since its world premiere in Berlin last February. One has to wonder whether Dupieux is now only considered to be a French local delicacy, even after the perverse joys and glorious idiocies of Mandibles and Deerskin (starring Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin and Adèle Haenel). Or maybe we’ve all been too cagey in describing Incredible But True and its Philip K. Slapstick premise. So here […]
by Nicolas Rapold on Nov 2, 2022 -
Cannes 2019 Dispatch 1: The Dead Don’t Die, Deerskin
Cannes opened its 72nd edition last night with Jim Jarmusch’s self-reflexive and divisive zomedy The Dead Don’t Die, a movie that reunites the American filmmaker with the horror genre he flirted with in 2013’s Only Lovers Left Alive, and serves to further clarify his late digital style. Though reportedly not the festival’s first choice for the slot, it’s easy to see why Cannes was content to offer it this year’s first red carpet; Jarmusch stacked his cast with A-listers—Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Danny Glover, Tilda Swinton, Chloë Sevigny, Selena Gomez, and I really could just keep on going—while the title […]
by Blake Williams on May 15, 2019 -
Quentin Dupieux on Wrong and Wrong Cops
Many musicians have dabbled with movies, but few have stuck it out and become as well known separately for their film work as director/d.p./editor Quentin Dupieux. Formerly best known as electronica artist Mr. Oizo, Dupieux began making short films at age 15. His first two features — 2002’s Nonfilm and Steak — didn’t attract attention outside of France, but 2010’s Rubber introduced him to a wider audience. The film follows killer tire Robert’s deadly road trip across California, beginning with a direct-to-the-audience monologue from actor Stephen Spinella explaining Dupieux’s philosophy of narrative and his bizarre sense of humor. “In the […]
by Vadim Rizov on Mar 27, 2013 -
TRAILER WATCH: “WRONG”
Tim League’s Drafthouse Films yesterday acquired the Sundance 2012 title Wrong, the latest film from French director Quentin Dupieux (aka dance music star Mr Oizo), the man responsible for last year‘s Rubber and the forthcoming Wrong Cops, starring Marilyn Manson. So now’s as good a time as any to post what is one of the most insane trailers I’ve seen in a long time. Even if the film doesn’t turn out to be fantastic, it certainly seems like it will be, at the very least, distinctively different. Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below.
by Nick Dawson on Aug 8, 2012
