Gleefully toying with the conventions of the police procedural film, Quentin Dupieux’s absurdist cat-and-mouse chase not only breaks the fourth wall, it turns the whole genre on its head! Full of surreal, meta-textual tricks, this Buñuel-esque gem is a breathless ride that delights in manic chaos.

Eğer 68 Mayısı Jean-Luc Godard için radikal bir dönüm noktasıysa, Michel Hazanavicius bu keskin virajı hayli eğlenceli ve pek romantik (olmayan) bir ilişki şeklinde yorumluyor. Louis Garrel efsanevi huysuz yönetmeni, Stacy Martin ise anıları filmin esin kaynağı olan Anne Wiazemsky’yi canlandırıyor.

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.