Killer tires. Corrupt cops but music lovers. Men obsessed with suede jackets. Such unusual fauna stars in the cinema Quentin DupeuxA lover of absurd humor (or “idiot” as he calls it) visits Sitges two years after he drove the festival audience crazy with a crazy creature: ‘Jaws’.
Stupid ‘Prisoner!’ As of 2018, Dupieux is going at the pace of one movie a year, something that even the coronavirus hasn’t stopped. In any case, due to the pandemic, the premieres gathered this year: not one but two new delusions compete at the festival, ‘Unbelievable but true’ and even better ‘Smoking causes coughing’. While describing this busy 2022, his electronic nickname, Mr. Oizo will also be able to add a new semi-recorded album with Italian rapper Phra with ‘Voilà’. Or one more prize for the collection: A Time Machine.
Time Travel and Power Rangers
A married couple in ‘Amazing but true’ (great Alain Shabbat Y Lea Drucker) stays in a house for its refreshment, but also for a certain sci-fi hook. We can almost think of Dupieux’s ‘Primer’, his absurd contribution to the most cerebral tradition of time travel cinema. “I saw ‘Primer,’” he says. “And these kinds of movies interest me, but they usually stay in a concept that’s explained and explained. My idea is simple: I want people to have fun. I saw stupid things when I was little. i like stupid. forget the truthThis is not to say that Dupieux has successfully satirized midorexia in men and women along the way. Already from afar, ‘Steak’ was a ‘gang’ movie version of it, a satire of the image cult.
On the other hand, in the section ‘Smoking causes cough’, The Tobacco Patrol, a team of vigilantes with the appearance of Power RangersHe was ordered to remain in a spiritual retreat to promote group cohesion. Just when you think you know what you’re looking at, boom, these perfectly normal superheroes start telling each other scary stories. “There was no point in parodying Power Rangers. It would just be a joke, and in that case you wouldn’t have kept the audience’s attention on you for ninety minutes or less. I wanted to mix a lot of different things, the kind of stories where everything is unpredictable and you don’t know what’s going to happen next.
just talking is boring
When Dupieux appears in some of the credits, reality is taken off the screen. “I never take the real world into account when I write. That’s not my thing, and a lot of people do it better than I do. I play with code, I play with narrative.” Always, but especially lately, at the service of the purest laughter. After getting the best laughs with ‘Jaws’, he set out to achieve that in every movie: “I discover something different in everything I do, but in the end, it’s people laughing that counts. If I don’t hear the laughter, I feel like I’ve failed. This is how I am in life. If we go to dinner and talk a little without laughing, I’ll get bored. I’ll think about it when I get back to bed, well, it wasn’t bad, but… it was kind of boring!“.