'Mandibles' review: Absurdist comedy about a bug and two dolts
For more than a decade now, French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux has been delighting and confounding art-house audiences around the world with movies like “Rubber,” “Wrong” and “Deerskin,” which have whimsically nonsensical plots that hover halfway between a weird dream and an old silent movie — one that even Dupieux only partly remembers. Dupieux’s latest is “Mandibles,” a movie ostensibly about two dim-witted petty criminals and a giant housefly they find in the trunk of a stolen car. Whatever you think Dupieux might do with this premise, think again. What starts as a deadpa...
Source: latimes.com
