Coincoin and the Extra Humans review – fuzz, sludge and lewd laughs
about 5 years in The guardian
Bruno Dumont continues his reinvention as a master of farce with this semi-satirical tale of alien goo and buffoonish cops
When in 2014 the French film-maker Bruno Dumont gave us his TV series P’tit Quinquin – a bizarre knockabout black comedy-thriller-farce – it was startling, almost unbelievable. Dumont was famous for his icy and sometimes shocking art-house realism. There was very little modern precedent for this shift in tone, although in the US David Gordon Green had shifted from Malickian poetry to stoner laughs.
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