2018 · comedy
Keep an Eye Out
Directed by Quentin Dupieux1h 13m2018
Louis just found the corpse of a man in front of his apartment building. Taken in for custody by Captain Buron, he finds himself on the wrong end of a surreal interrogation. But how can you prove you are innocent when the cops are crazy?
Our read: Keep an Eye Out (2018) reads as a neutral, steady, surreal comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, steady, gentle comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
- gentle
- surreal
- cold
- intimate
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