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Mandibules
Mandibles
France / Belgium 2020
produced by Vincent Mazel, Hugo Sélignac for Artémis Productions, BE TV, C8 Films, Chi-Fou-Mi Productions, Memento Films Production, Shelter Prod, VOO
directed by Quentin Dupieux
starring Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Adèle Exarchopoulos, India Hair, Roméo Elvis, Coralie Russier, Bruno Lochet, Raphaël Quenard, Gaspard Augé, Thomas Blanchard, Philippe Dusseau, Olivier Blanc, Jean-Paul Solal, Jézabel Marques, Marie Narbonne, Pablo Beugnet, Marius Colucci, Dave Chapman
written by Quentin Dupieux, music by Metronomy, special effects by Clément Wintz, visual effects supervised by Jean François Fontaine, Lucas Monjo, animation supervised by François Malary
review by Mike Haberfelner
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All Manu (Grégoire Ludig) and Jean-Gab (David Marsais) are hired to do
is drive a suitcase from point A to point B for an ok €500 - but the
beat-up Mercedes Manu steals to do so just happens to carry a giant fly in
its trunk. So the two friends, not the brightest, have the questionable
idea to instead of earning some easy cash to train the fly to rob banks
for them. They move into a stolen trailer in the middle of nowhere for
some fly-training but pretty much failing every step along the way, from
running out of money, to burning down the trailer, to running out of gas -
and then it seems love strikes when they run across a bunch of youngsters
on the way to their country home to spend their holidays, and one of them,
Cécile (India Hair), insists that Manu's her ex-boyfriend, so she invites
him and Jean-Gab to join them - to which they happily agree, figuring as
long as they manage to hide their fly (whom Jean-Gab has lovingly baptized
Dominique), they should be good. Thing is, hiding a giant fly sounds a lot
easier than it is, and ultimately they have to steal a dog to cover up
their tracks, then after the fly as eaten their dog blame it on Cécile's
unstable friend Agnès (Adèle Exarchopoulos), and ultimately make a
hasty getaway when they're about to found out. But they still have their
fly, and nothing will ever shake their conviction that one day she'll rob
banks for them ... Now Mandibles isn't the subtlest of
comedies - in fact it goes out of its way a few times too often just to
prove that the two lead characters are idiots - but it's also pretty darn
funny, as writer/director Quentin Dupieux really knows how to create
absurd situations, how to set punchlines, and how to constantly surprise
the audience, while at the same time telling his story in a
well-structured manner, and without letting cheap jokes getting in the way
of his narrative. And the outcome is just an extremely entertaining watch
that's really funnier than one expects it to be.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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