Mandibles

Quentin Dupieux has always made strange films that usually can’t be categorized as anything other than bizarre. His filmmaking career seems to have culminated with Deerskin, which is his funniest and most coherent film to date. Mandibles feels like a withdrawn version of Dupieux though. There’s a giant fly, but we don’t see enough of her as we’re subjected to two morons trying to get a free pass on life. Its attempts at humor fall flat and it’s impossible to sympathize with or find any sort of entertaining qualities in any of the characters. Mandibles is really only going to be for hardcore fa…

CinemaSerf

2026-09-27

⭐ 7

There's not much in it, but "Jean-Gab" (David Marsais) is the marginally brighter of a pairing with his best pal "Manu" (Grégoire Ludig) who have been given a simple task by their boss for which they'll get 500 Euros. How hard can it be? All they have to do is drive. Well on their way, they start to hear a strange noise coming from the boot of their car. Stopping and opening it, they discover a fly the size of a family dog snoozing inside. Innovatively, they decide that if they can train this beastie, it could be far more use to them that the money they'd been promised for the job - so in best…