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Yannick review " Quentin Dupieux goes for laughs in absurdist theatre hijack comedy

by Peter Bradshaw

Dupieux's melancholic comedy sees a disillusioned audience member pull a gun before demanding a word processor to write the actors a better play Quentin Dupieux is one of the vanishingly small number of film-makers on the non-Anglo-American distribution circuit who really is interested in " and allowed to make " straight-up comedy, albeit flavoured with melancholy or violent absurdity. For me, only Benoît Delépin…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:36am on April 2, 2024