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Incroyable Mais Vrai
Incredible But True
France / Belgium 2022
produced by Thomas Verhaeghe for Atelier de Production, Arte, Versus Production, VOO, BE TV
directed by Quentin Dupieux
starring Alain Chabat, Léa Drucker, Benoît Magimel, Anaïs Demoustier, Stéphane Pezerat, Marie-Christine Orry, Roxane Arnal, Léna Laprès, Grégoire Bonnet, Hiro Uchiyama, Nagisa Morimoto, Azuki Hagino, Mustapha Abourachid, Antonia Buresi, Matthieu Blanchard, Mikaël Halimi, Vanessa Philippon, Michel Hazanavicius
written by Quentin Dupieux, music by Jon Santo
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Middle-aged Alain (Alain Chabat) and Marie (Léa Drucker) already love
the house they're shown when their realtor (Stéphane Pezerat) shows them
a rather incredible extra feature: There's a well in the basement that if
you climb down you end up (against all logic) in the ground floor kitchen,
and not only that but 12 hours later - so ok, you lose half a day, but
every climb also makes you three days younger. Now Alain dismisses this
feature as slightly silly, but Marie soon sees it as a way to recover her
youth. Unfortunately the side effect of this is that climbing down the
well too often doesn't only make you lose enormous amounts of time, it
also slowly drives you mad ... In the meantime, Alain's best friend and
boss Gérard (Benoît Magimel) has found another way he thinks would
recover his youth, he has his penis replaced by an electrical one, where
he can control his erections via cellphone and that features different
levels of vibration. His girlfriend Jeanne (Anaïs Demoustier) swears by
it, but little does she know this is just a symptom of Gérard's midlife
crisis, and he soon has replaced her by a younger model, and is buying
fancy car after fancy car on top of it. He's pretty much living his life -
until his new artificial penis starts to malfunction ... Wildly
mixing science fiction and fantasy elements, at its heart Incredible But True
is actually a very funny and pretty sharp midlife crisis
satire, one that might not always be in perfect good taste but never goes
the full gross-out route, and actually has a lot of heart. And Quentin
Dupieux handles his story with the necessary subtlety, but also always
finds humour in the often tragic goings-on, best shown in a series of
montages set to anachronistic music. And a solid small ensemble keeps
things grounded and plays it straight while being in on the joke. And the
result is just really good entertainment. If
this has gotten you at all interested, Incredible But True can
be seen on the Arrow player
from October 1st 2022 in the UK, the US, Canada and Ireland:
www.arrow-player.com
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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