Tournées Film Festival: "Réalité" ("Reality")

October 26, 2016
06:45 PM - 08:30 PM
Hoyt Auditorium, River Campus

Synopsis
Combine David Lynch's head-scratching wildness and Charlie Kaufman's hilarious worst-case scenarios, throw in a pinch of Luis Buñuel's wicked irreverence and a streak of cruel French humor, and you won't quite have Quentin Dupieux's Reality, but you'll be a little closer to understanding how far outside convention this delightfully fearless, mind-bending comedy dwells. In Reality, a French filmmaker in California finds a movie-house that is already screening the film he is in the process of writing, a little girl tries to watch a big blue videotape she found inside a hog's stomach, and a cooking show host endangers his livelihood by constantly scratching at a full-body rash that no one else can see. By making his characters intersect in the realm of the impossible, Dupieux masterfully collapses the distance between dream and reality and returns to film's primal role in the collective unconscious. Working in a sui generis genre that can both stand up to psychoanalytic exegesis and provide riotous late-night viewing, Dupieux has established himself as one of the last mad scientists of French cinema. While he is currently seen as little more than a cult outsider, it is only a matter of time before he is recognized as one of the great originals of our age.

Director
Quentin Dupieux 

Screenplay
Quentin Dupieux

Cast
Alain Chabat
Jonathan Lambert
Elodie Bouchez
Jon Heder

Details
French, English
95 min.
France, 2014

Distributor
IFC Films

Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, the Film and Media Studies Program, and FACE Tournées Film Festival. Tournées Film Festival is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US, the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC), the Franco-American Cultural Fund, the Florence Gould Foundation, and Highbrow Entertainment.

Links:
Tournées Film Festival (Fall 2016)
"Réalité" trailer (YouTube)

Category: Film Screenings