Keep An Eye Out
France, Belgium • 2018
The latest deranged delight by French absurdist Quentin Dupieux, Keep An Eye Out is a breakneck-paced cop comedy that packs more laughs into its 73 breezy minutes than some filmmakers manage in their entire careers.
Belgian funnyman Benoît Poelvoorde (Man Bites Dog) is Commissaire Buran, a good, bad cop interrogating Fugain, (Grégoire Ludig), an average Joe who discovered a dead body outside his apartment building. As the film begins, Fugain must, on an empty stomach, explain how and why he happened to leave home seven times in one night before coming across a corpse in a puddle of blood. Since he’s the investigation’s only suspect, Fugain’s anxiety is already sky-high when Buran leaves him alone with Philippe, a one-eyed rookie cop with bizarre speech patterns and a few minutes to live. Bloody, batshit hijinks ensue, and before long, we’re in Buñuel territory.
Between the opening sequence, when a man in just red briefs conducts a philharmonic orchestra in the open air, and the triple-meta denouement, Dupieux’s whip-smart script 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.
Runtime
Language
Subtitles
Color
Format
Sound
73 minutes
French
English
Color
1.85:1
5.1
Quentin Dupieux
Benoît Poelvoorde, Grégoire Ludig, Marc Fraize, Anaïs Demoustier
Director & writer
Starring
BLU-RAY
DETAILS
Region A Blu-ray
Audio Commentary with Director Quentin Dupieux
Rehearsal Footage
Make-up FX Test
Theatrical Trailer
Booklet featuring interviews with Quentin Dupieux, Benoit Poelvoorde and Grégoire Ludig
Inside cover artwork
English subtitles
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