IF YOU’RE FAMILIAR WITH Quentin Dupieux’s filmography, you’ll know that it’s wildly idiosyncratic. Recent UK releases include Deerskin, about a deerskin jacket obsessive out to dispose of every other jacket in the world, and Mandibles, in which two doofuses consider using a gigantic fly to rob banks. If you’re not, then brace yourself before dipping in: these are wrong-footingly unpredictable films.
If Hollywood movies are structured like rock music, Dupieux’s are more akin to jazz, we suggest. “I think I know what you mean,” he laughs. “Comparing
