Quentin Dupieux’ absurde Katz-und-Maus-Jagd durchbricht nicht nur die vierte Wand, sondern stellt gleich das ganze Genre auf den Kopf! Dieses Juwel im Stile Buñuels steckt voller surrealer, metatextueller Tricks und ist ein atemloser Ritt, der sich am manischen Chaos erfreut.

If Jean-Luc Godard took a radical turn around the time of May 68, Michel Hazanavicius subverts the stern metamorphosis and turns it into a wildly entertaining, (un)romantic affair. Louis Garrel is the moody legendary director, while Stacy Martin is Anne Wiazemsky—on whose memoirs the film is based!

Descending into a bizarro world of electric genitals and elastic time, French jokester Quentin Dupieux devises newfangled, side-splitting methods for well-off egotists to keep up appearances. Suspend disbelief: this wild-eyed pursuit of eternal youth and virility is absurdly funny—and incisive too.