Keep an Eye Out!
Fri, Mar 05
|Virtual Cinema
Between the opening sequence, a man in red speedos conducting an outdoor orchestra, and the triple-meta denouement, this whip-smart French comedy disregards audience expectations, the fourth wall, and the laws of time and space. You’ll never look at a protractor or an oyster the same way again.
Time & Location
Mar 05, 2021, 12:00 AM – Mar 26, 2021, 4:00 AM
Virtual Cinema
About the event
Keep an Eye Out (Au Poste!) Directed by Quentin Dupieux. In French; English subtitles. 73 mins. Tickets are $10. for a 72 hour window for viewing. WATCH: https://watch.eventive.org/keepaneyeout/play/6022adcbdcde550de38d6336
Tires, leather jackets and televisions have come to life—and thirsted for blood—in director Quentin Dupieux’s delightfully deranged earlier features, Rubber, Deerskin and Reality. The ever-unpredictable filmmaker and electro DJ (who performs as Mr Oizo) returns with Au Poste! (Keep an Eye Out) a unique film that explores the darkly comedic tension between the mundane and extraordinary.
A minutiae-obsessed police inspector (Belgian funnyman Benoît Poelvoorde, Man Bites Dog) bumbles and doubles back through the most agonizing late-night interrogation of all time, much to the chagrin of his deadpan interviewee (Grégoire Ludig), an average joe who stumbled upon a dead body in front of his apartment building. The familiar scenario of a good cop/bad cop taking a statement from a hapless witness somersaults out…