Mandibles: In The Shade Film Festival Review
Mandibles: In The Shade Film Festival Review Bearing more than a passing reference to Bill and Ted, Rubber director Quentin Dupieux's latest may try some people's patience and may also push some buttons for its portrayal of a brain-injured person. It's the story of listless duo Manu and Jean-Gab (Gregoire Ludig and David Marsais) who get enrolled into delivering a suitcase for a contact of Manu's. Stealing a car, Manu picks up his feckless mate and sets off - but minutes into the drive, they realise something is in the car's trunk. It turns out that something is a 2 foot long housefly, which Jean-Gab believes they can train, make money from and who names it Dominique.... Mandibles is essentially a piecemeal road trip with a pair of idiots behind the wheel. It never quite capitalises on the large fly's premise or what your expectations of where the story may head, preferring instead to follow a route of a Harry and Lloyd Dumb and Dumber trip into errors and fau...