Special Screenings 2019

Au poste!

Quentin Dupieux I 2018 I 73'

SYNOPSIS

Fugain stands at the police station to report that there is a body at the entrance to his building. What he doesn’t expect is to run into Captain Buron, who will subject him to an arduous interrogation, at every most delirious phrase. A master of the absurd, Quentin Dupieux moves to France in the 1970s, locks himself up in a police station and gives free rein to a comedy received with honours by French critics.

BIOGRAPHY

Quentin Dupieux

QUENTIN DUPIEUX (France, 1974) began filming and composing electronic music at an early age, a field in which he became famous under the alias of Mr Oizo. He made his film debut with Nonfilm (2001) and established himself with the unclassifiable Rubber (2010), Wrong (2012), Wrong Cops (2013) and Réalité (2014).

Multimedia

Critical text

Quentin Dupieux, undisputed master of contemporary comedy, author of works as gloriously revolutionary as Wrong Cops (2013) and Réalité (2014), with Au poste! he delivers another unusual piece of absurd humor. All part of a simple police interrogation, in which Louis, unlikely suspect of a crime, maintains an intense face to face with Captain Buron, a character as grotesque as touching that joins the long list of delirious creatures drawn by the director. Far from clarifying the facts, the dialectical battle is gradually entangled by constant digressions, blowing up
the logic of time and space, questioning the concept of reality, both in life and in the cinema. Quentin Dupieux brings two strong sentences: 1) Surrealism ends up to being the most reliable tool to understand ourselves; and 2) human existence can only be conceived from the unlimited imagination. JAVIER H. ESTRADA

Technical Sheet