Li'l Quinquin

Caden M

Recognition for the performances of Alane Delhaye (Li'l Quinquin) and Bernard Pruvost (Van der Weyden) needs to be given. The mini-series/film would not work without them. Don't expect stunning visuals or much in terms of spectacle. That is not the takeaway. Instead, be prepared to dissect and digest whether the evil here is innate to ourselves or seeping in from a poisoned natural world.

Wee Hunk

This is the reason I come to MUBI. Sure there are crappy movies every once in a while, but then you get something like this that just knocks you over. Thanks MUBI, and you might want to think about more of these type of well made TV shows like 'Les Revanants'.

Duncan Gray

A mystery today, and it probably will still be a mystery a decade from now. Is the murderer out there, or were the victims simply swallowed up by a deceptively toxic landscape? Don't expect to be handed answers if you're not willing to bring your own, for what we have here, disguised as a whodunit, is a movie about complicity, inaction, and the cop-out of blaming horrific acts on "evil". All that, and it's funny too.

etblikk

It is distinguished by an uncommon equilibrium between form and content. The entire history of one country is present in the microcosms of one village in today’s Normandy. It includes a range of highly relevant issues, like postcolonial traumas and food chain contamination. A variety of genres is innovatively mixed incorporating a French odd-ball comedy, a rural family saga, surrealism à la Tati and a crime story.

El Biffo

Inspector Clouseau meets Antoine Doinel.

Warren Spratley

This great, great, great comedy is a tonal high wire act that doesn't ever really falter. Dumont continually achieves a gentle, dim kind of dissonant coloring in each scene. Many are incredibly heterogeneous, built intensely upon networks of colliding sounds and shots, and deceptive arrangements of social mise en scene. At times, I simply had to throw my hands up in disbelief. Here, Dumont fully achieves sublimity.

Samuel T.

Carefully curated physiognomy and landscape, signature Dumont. But instead of languidly paced film with sudden bursts of sex or violence, Dumont simply lets it all flow at, for Dumont, a steady pace. Meditations on intimacy, religion, racism, gender, general "global issues," not unusual for the filmmaker, but here, a jam-packed punch with overwrought humor. Unspeakable cinematography. Next level Dumont.

Roberto Carlos

Apart from Hong Sang-soo's work the most hilarious piece in contemporary auteur cinema. Dumont doing TV Comedy is hard to believe, but it works incredibly well.