Five films by Quentin Dupieux can be seen in streaming on France TV for the release of Daaaaaali!

Five films by Quentin Dupieux can be seen in streaming on France TV for the release of Daaaaaali!

ByLeila

It’s time to (re)see Rubber, Wrong, Wrong Cops, Réalité and Au Poste!.

Daaaaaali! is expected from February 7 at the cinema, worn by Pio Marmaï, Anaïs Demoustier, Gilles Lellouche, Edouard Baer, ​​Jonathan Cohen…

To celebrate the theatrical release of the new production of Quentin Dupieuxless than a year after the success of his surprise film Yannickand before finishing his secret project with Léa SeydouxVincent Lindon, Raphaël Quenard and Louis Garrel, France.TV has put online five previous offbeat works by the screenwriter and director.

All original films, which allow you to immerse yourself in his particular universe before seeing how he was inspired by the life of the artist Salvador Dali. Here is the list, and the details.

All were released between 2010 and 2018 and will be offered free online: Rubber, Wrong, Wrong Cops, Reality And At office !.

The theory that kills on Au Poste! by Quentin Dupieux

Rubber (2010)

With Roxane Mesquida, Haley Ramm, Stephen Spinella…

The pitch: In the Californian desert, incredulous spectators witness the adventures of a killer and telepathic tire, mysteriously attracted to a pretty young girl. An investigation begins.

The opinion of First : In the French cinematographic landscape, there is only Quentin Dupieux to dare to make a film about a psychopathic tire in love with a human… It’s inflated and we like it.

Far from copying and pasting Hollywood recipes or the soup that we have been served on the big screen for too long, Rubber is refreshing in every way. The challenge for the critic is then to make you want to go see this UFO without saying too much and spoiling the surprise. Comedy? Thriller? Road movie? Romance? The Dupieux-style genre film is 1h20 freewheeling with an image from a digital camera and an extraordinary main actor. In short, Rubber it’s a big delirium that doesn’t fear a puncture.

Wrong (2012)

With Eric Judor, Jack Plotnick, Alexis Dziena…

The pitch: Dolph, a common but irresistible character, loses his dog Paul. He discovers that Paul has been kidnapped by a strange vigilante, Dr. Chang. Under the eyes of a nymphomaniac pizza delivery girl, a jogging neighbor in search of the absolute, or an opportunistic Mexican gardener, Dolph will gradually lose his mind… and his identity.

The opinion of First : Better than Steak and to Rubberhis two previous films with arguments too thin to hold water, Wrongwhose title (” fake “ Or ” wrong “ in French) says it all, it’s Alice in Wonderland in deviant mode.

The absurd encounters that Dolph Springer has put him in a situation of permanent failure and thus push him to surpass himself, to mature a little. Isn’t he that rascal who continues to go to work even though he has been unemployed for three months? This weakling incapable of holding a woman? This little girl for whom the disappearance of a dog means the end of the world?

A fascinating and disconcerting creator, Dupieux also proves to be an inspired director of actors. From the revelation Jack Plotnick (clone of David Arquette) to the solid William Fichtner, including the indescribable Éric Judor, the entire cast is at the service of the director’s crazy vision.

Wrong Cops (2014)

With Mark Burnham, Eric Judor, Marilyn Manson…

The pitch: Los Angeles 2014. Duke, a rotten and music-loving cop, deals weed and terrorizes passers-by. His colleagues at the police station: a sex maniac, a blackmailer cop, a treasure seeker with a dubious past, a deformed one-eyed man dreaming of being a techno star… their system of little schemes and games of influence goes awry when the last Duke’s victim, a neighbor left for dead in his trunk, wakes up.

The opinion of First : Quentin Dupieux, alias Mr. Oizo, is hype. For him, Marilyn Manson agreed to play a sullen teenager, mistreated by a drug dealer who sells his dope hidden in dead rats. Welcome to the surreal world of QD, which, after UFOs Rubber And Wrongstrives to depict the daily life of a brigade of degenerate agents.

With this new film, less dada and more narrative, Dupieux reaches his limits. If the atmosphere remains heavy and intriguing, we see less and less where Oizo is coming from, the gap between Buñuel and a schoolboy wit that is too first degree.

Reality (2015)

With Alain Chabat, Jonathan Lambert, Elodie Bouchez…

The pitch: Jason, a placid cameraman, dreams of directing his first horror film. Bob Marshal, a rich producer, agrees to finance his film on one condition: Jason has 48 hours to find the best moan in the history of cinema….

The opinion of First : To say that we were waiting for the new Quentin Dupieux is an understatement. With Alain Chabat at the head of the poster, his absurd master, we were going to see what we were going to see. The frustration is therefore at the height of the expectation undoubtedly distorted by the desire for him to confirm the promises of Steak and of Wrongprecise nonsense, between “branchitude” and casualness, which lacked unity, direction.

With its never-connected parallel plots (a cameraman who wants to make a horror film; a little girl obsessed with a video tape; a hypochondriac presenter), Reality extends this kind of gratuitousness characterizing the work of the filmmaker, who stubbornly refuses legibility and interpretation. If the Dupieux revolution did not take place, we nevertheless continue to smile at certain Dadaist situations of which he has the secret.

At office ! (2018)

With Benoît Poelvoorde, Grégoire Ludig, Marc Fraize…

The pitch: A police station.
A tête-à-tête, in police custody, between a commissioner and his suspect.

The opinion of First : The poster pays tribute to Fear in the city with Bébel, the beige photo refers to the aesthetics of seventies thrillers, but At office !, Quentin Dupieux’s film is not a pastiche. The author of Steak And Reality only starts from the detective genre to deconstruct it, cracking its codes in its own theatrical and absurd way.

If you’re hoping for car races, gunfights or femme fatales, run away. The promise of the spectacular is defused by the filmmaker-musician, who takes pleasure in taking the title literally: at the post, we will therefore stay. To chat. And at length. Dupieux in fact imagines a police custody situation in which Commissioner Buron (Benoît Poelvoorde) cooks Fugain (Grégoire Ludig), a man strangely less concerned by the murder he is suspected of having committed than by his stomach.

Comic Vista

The mustachioed nonchalance of Ludig opposed to the nicotine zeal of a Poelvoorde on fire (the smoke he inhales also comes out of his belly through a hole), quickly creates sparks. They intensify in the presence of a third thief, Philippe, a one-eyed cop with a hair in his hand played by the hilarious Marc Fraize (seen in Problems) : in charge of “keep an eye” on Fugain, he will end up prematurely and literally plastered. His jubilant oratorical jousts are replaced by a clever embedding of mise en abimes, a guilty pleasure of the director of Non-Film. The meta mechanics then take hold, without suffocating themselves, because they are overwhelmed by the comical vision of a golden cast.

At office ! – Quentin Dupieux: “For me, Poelvoorde is an old Labrador”

Leila
Leila

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