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Down The Hatch
French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux talks about his latest oddball offering, Incredible But True
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Quentin Dupieux topped the UK singles chart in 1999 under the name Mr Oizo, with his dance track “Flat Beat”.
IF YOU’RE FAMILIAR WITH Quentin Dupieux’s filmography, you’ll know that it’s wildly idiosyncratic. Recent UK releases include Deerskin, about a deerskin jacket obsessive out to dispose of every other jacket in the world, and Mandibles, in which two doofuses consider using a gigantic fly to rob banks. If you’re not, then brace yourself before dipping in: these are wrong-footingly unpredictable films.
If Hollywood movies are structured like rock music, Dupieux’s are more akin to jazz, we suggest. “I think I know what you mean,” he laughs. “Comparing what I do with Hollywood is almost a joke, because in Hollywood everything is over-written, over-planned. Everything feels the same – even the good movies are built on a structure you’ve seen 3,000 times. It feels too scripted, very artificial.”