MR. OIZO (french electro house artists aka Quentin Dupieux) MAKES MOVIES TOO - STEAK (2007) - RUBBER (Nov 2010)

I just watched Steak last nite as was way into it.

http://www.cinematex.ro/posters/19/movie19521.jpg

Mr, Oizo directed it, and Sebastien Tellier, SebastiAn (ed Banger)and Kavinsky are all actors in it. It's a silly movie that reeks of French loathing of Americans but is short enough and weird enough and creative enough to enjoy. Almost like if Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms were a sci-fi comedy??

Anyway, he has a new one, Rubber that already got mixed reviews at Cannes and is getting a French release later this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sONqulOuIEo

I don't think Steak had any sort of US release, and it doesn't look like Rubber will either.

Has anyone else seen Steak or know anything more about Rubber?

oh, i guess Eric and Ramzy (leads in Steak) are kind of a big deal in French humor.

Ha Steak! I remember watching it in a cinema where about 50-60 people had come, mostly because of Eric and Ramzy. When the movie finished I think there were only about 7-8 of us left in the theater. I remember quite liking the movie, thinking that it was kinda wtf all the time. Should probably see it again to refresh my memory.

Didn't know Quentin Dupieux had a new film coming out soon, will keep an eye out for its release.

Everyone should watch Rubber (on netflix streaming btw) because everyone will either love it or fucking hate it.

i loved it.

umm, i watched this movie in a theater a few months ago and i think i can c&p my previous post. 50 ppl turned to like maybe 10 at the end of the movie.

that movie was made by the flat eric guy? wow wut

rubber has been sitting on my hard drive for months, just daring me to spend an hour and twenty minutes with it.

it is 1000% pretentious and irritating, but it is also just so damn good at being that that it ends up being a great great movie. also there are many many lols to be had.

STEAK is so fucking awesome i cant believe it hasnt gotten a US release

its like a bizarro John Hughes movie

i might have to track that down somehow

1000% pretentious and irritating

otm, but you forgot tedious and boring

nah

some discussion of rubber in the pants-shitting horror thread (my deep thoughts here). basically, i'm on the fence. has very good and very bad aspects. to it's credit, it's sui generis, unlike any other film i've ever seen, and it looks gorgeous. to its not-credit, it's often painfully slow and nowhere near as funny or as clever as dupieux seems to imagine.

in spite of at least half disliking it at the time, i find that i remember rubber well and think of it often. and 3j is right in that it somehow manages to turn its own insanely irritating pretentiousness into a perverse virtue, mostly by means of ambiguity about whether or not the pretentiousness is supposed to be self-mocking or just, you know, "smart."

wouldn't be surprised if it wound up a stealth favorite a few years down the line...

I didn't feel it was ambiguous at all, I am 100% convinced that Dupieux and co. believe the "No Reason" manifesto is brilliant. is there anything out there than contradicts this?

well, the "no reason" manifesto ascribes the absence of reason to cinematic decision that have sound and plainly obvious reasons behind them. the characters in love story fall in love because each represents to the other something they perceive as lacking in themselves and their culture. the president in JFK is suddenly assassinated because, well, he because he really was assassinated (our inability to easily explain why is precisely the point of the film). and we never see the characters in the "excellent" chainsaw massacre go to the bathroom or wash their hands because it's inessential, because the victims have little opportunity to do anything by struggle, scream and/or flee, and because their captors live in happy squalor.

the manifesto is a self-subverting, double-edged joke, apparently devoid of meaning, but slyly insisting that movies do what they do for a reason. it plainly announces the writer's dedication to poker-faced absurdity, but tells us little about whether or not the film actually intends to be genuinely pointless.

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