dialogue heavy 75-minute surrealist goof with absurd deaths and time-travel paradoxes inside of flashbacks isQuentin Dupieux‘s mostBuñuelian movie to date. This technically came out in 2018 in France but was not theatrically distributed in the U.S. until this year, so we’re counting it ...
“… the concept of freedom as touched upon in the film is just another in the system of reversals—one of dozens of dumbfounding paradoxes that so fascinate and amuse this most free yet most disciplined of film makers… There’s no single correct way to read it, which is not a rational...
Mike argued that the famous “grandfather paradox” of time travel is not true if we use the idea of a “block time” reality, where everything exists simultaneously, and all seeming paradoxes are accounted for: “Everything you did before you left was already there.” He brought up the ...
Looking for clues, Micheal discovers strange footage shot by a missing anthropology team, then locates a laconic neighbor, Bryon (Bill Oberst Jr.), with an uncomfortably unorthodox existential philosophy. From here the story plunges into perplexing paradoxes. Chris’s sleazy drug buddies and the la...