Rubber (film)

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Movie
German title Rubber
Original title Rubber
Country of production France
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Quentin Dupieux
script Quentin Dupieux
production Julien Berlan
Gregory Bernard
music Gaspard Augé
Quentin Dupieux
camera Quentin Dupieux
cut Quentin Dupieux
occupation

Rubber is a French film directed by Quentin Dupieux from the year 2010 . The protagonist is a murderous car tire .

action

The film has two levels of action that blend together.

The framework consists of a group of spectators with binoculars observing a kind of drama, which represents the second level of action.

A car tire (Robert) comes to life in it. He kills smaller animals, initially by rolling them over, later with a kind of telekinesis that causes the animals to explode. The tire finally comes to a highway on which a young woman (Sheila) is driving past. Using telekinesis, the car tire brings the vehicle to a standstill and approaches the woman, but at the last moment is hit by another careless driver. Later, the tire rolls past a petrol station where the driver who hit it is filling up. He kills him and rolls on to a motel where the young woman has stayed.

The whole scene is constantly observed by the audience. On the second day, one of the organizers (the accountant ) of the show gave them a turkey to eat, which - as it turned out later - was deliberately poisoned so that the show could end.

The tire, which has now spent one night in a motel room, kills a maid and the police arrive to investigate the case. The investigation is led by a sheriff (Lieutenant Chad) , who is also one of the organizers of the show. He initially assumes that the spectators were killed by the poisoned food and explains to the other police officers that they are only extras in a play.

However, one of the spectators had no appetite, so he survived. Then Lieutenant Chad decides that the drama has to go on. He finally learns that the murders were committed by a tire and continues to pursue it. In the meantime, the tire continues to murder and finally settles in a residential building, where he killed the resident and watched a car race on television. The sheriff tracks him down there and tries to set a trap for him with the young girl. However, the plan fails.

The surviving spectator has meanwhile left his observation position and interferes in the action. When the sheriff enters the house in frustration and shoots the tire, the tire is reborn as a tricycle and kills the last spectator. After all, the tricycle rolls to Hollywood with other car tires.

background

The film was screened at the 2010 Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes International Film Festival and was then distributed there. It was then screened at the Fantasia Festival , the Sitges Film Festival and the After Dark Film Festival in 2010 .

Reviews

The reviews of the film were mostly benevolent. However, Variety found the film to be "neither creepy, funny nor subtle". B. Joachim Kurz from kino-zeit.de summarizes: "In addition, rubber is wonderfully amusing trash, which repeatedly refers to the made-up of film and thus plays a smart game with the medium of film". The magazine Stern awarded 4 out of 5 possible stars and praised him as original , but also idiotic .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Cannes Review: Quentin Dupieux's Wacky Tire Movie Rubber. Retrieved May 29, 2019 (American English).
  2. Fantasia Festival 2010, July 9th: "Rubber" by Pat Hatfreet. Archived from the original on February 10, 2018 ; accessed on May 29, 2019 .
  3. Press review on Filmstarts.de http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/179625/pressespiegel/ (accessed on June 18, 2011)
  4. Joachim Kurz: And he rolls and rolls and rolls ... on kino-zeit.de ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved June 18, 2011) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kino-zeit.de