Perhaps we’re comedy-starved in today’s cinematic landscape, but Dupieux’s rollicking adventure generates rare laugh-out-loud moments and even a few applause-worthy bits.
Mandibles(Mandibules)
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France · 2020
1h 17m
Director Quentin Dupieux
Starring Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Adèle Exarchopoulos, India Hair
Genre Comedy, Fantasy
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Two simple-minded friends discover a giant fly in the trunk of a car and come up with a plan to earn money with it. A surreal, laugh-out-loud comedy that rises above the buddy-film genre because of its unabashed cheeriness and riotously funny leads.
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Perhaps we’re comedy-starved in today’s cinematic landscape, but Dupieux’s rollicking adventure generates rare laugh-out-loud moments and even a few applause-worthy bits.
Mandibles is as brazenly and riotously stupid as it sounds, but with a chill, dopey sweetness that makes it stick.
The really new news of Mandibles however, is, where in the past Dupieux’s surrealism always had a cynical, sinister, even murderous undercurrent, here, he lets himself be cheerful, as though infected by the sweet-natured bromance between his appealing, appalling idiot leads.
Mandibles is far from derivative, and Dupieux goes beyond the usual “Love you bro!” buddy-film clichés to draw something genuine, even heartwarming, out of the friendship between these two idiots.
What makes Mandibules so refreshing is that, just as its anti-heroes don’t care about how they are supposed to behave, Dupieux has an airy disregard for how a chase thriller or a horror movie is supposed to proceed.
Mandibules is a rollicking, rambunctious tequila-dream of a movie.
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