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Rubber (2010)

★★★ — Rubber (2010)

Quentin Dupieux, better known in music circles as the French electronic producer Mr. Oizo, had already made a handful of lo-fi features in France before this, his English-language debut, screened at Cannes in 2010 to considerable bewilderment and delight in roughly equal measure. Shot on location in the Californian desert on a budget of around $500,000, the film is entirely original (no source material, no remake, no IP), and proudly so. Dupieux wrote, directed, shot, and edited it himself, a one-man-band approach that became something of a calling card for his subsequent career, which has grown steadily more prolific and, in France particularly, more celebrated. It made virtually nothing theatrically on release, earning under $100,000 in the United States.

You will never see a movie quite like this. Right from the beginning with one of the characters breaking the 4th wall and signifying an homage to the "no reason" you know that film is going to be something utterly different. It starts off great. The first 30 minutes or so with the title character, Robert, a sentient murderous tyre, learning to move and blow stuff up, is great. Quickly though it does wear thin (no pun intended) and I feel like this probably should have been a grindhouse-esque double feature. 45 minutes each. Trust me though, when you watch this, it's something you'll tell other people about.

Rating: ★★★ | Year: 2010 | Watched: 2025-04-13

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