In the multi-hyphenate filmmaker's latest romp, Raphaël Quenard stars as an unhappy spectator who decides to take matters into his own hands.
, DJ turned director Quentin Dupieux has kept up a steady pace of one or two features a year, making him among the most prolific filmmakers currently working in France. One of the ways he pulls this off is by being a cinematic one-man-band, penning his own scripts, then shooting, editing and sometimes scoring his own movies, which tend to clock in somewhere between seventy and ninety minutes.
He’s tackled many different genres over the past decade, from comedy to thriller to horror to sci-fi, often blending two or three of them into a single story. And yet what all his films have in common is a totally absurdist, idiosyncratic approach that mixes high-concept plots with a tone best described as deadpan surrealism. In a sense, he’s invented his own genre by now, which I guess the French would call “Dupieuxien,” as in: “That film had a very Dupieuxien premise.
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