All credits to them for ripping them and ocring them from the retail bluray. Whats more, while it was originally made as a fourpart tv miniseries, it doesnt feel a bit like television. Originally premiering as a film at the 2014 cannes film festival in may and subsequently for international releases, it was broadcast in september 2014 as a miniseries on french television. While lil quinquin arguably works better if viewed in four separate pieces, its another unique film from dumont, whose knack for comedy is as delightfully off center as his more dramatic entries. He jumps into the film and just as quickly jumps right back out. Lil quinquin trailer new release film at lincoln center. Lil quinquin ptit quinquin 2014 trailer english subs youtube. Dumonts foray into miniseries format filled with his brand of peculiar humor. There is something for any film buff in lil quinquin, like the ongoing dislike between the cop and the kid he really bugs me. Este film fue calificado con tres estrellas por 220 cinefilos. A murder mystery that opens with the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a cow on the outskirts of a small channel town in northern france.
A grim arthouse director made a comeback by embracing self. Dubbed an epic farce by the new york film festival, lil quinquin has been compared to twin peaks and true detective. The slow pacing narration is wonderful, so the camera gets time to capture the environment and to show the everyday rural background of the people. Lil quinquin showtimes a wonderfully weird and unexpectedly hilarious murder mystery. Festival, lil quinquin has been compared to twin peaks and true detective. Scott foundas, variety a pair of bumbling small town detectives investigate a hilariously strange mystery involving murder, madness and farm animals in director bruno dumonts oneofakind comedythriller lil quinquin dumont lhumanite, an auteur often considered a spiritual heir to. Ptit quinquin is a 2014 french murder mystery filmminiseries directed by bruno dumont. Warren spratley this great, great, great comedy is a tonal high wire act that doesnt ever really falter. Lil quinquin ptit quinquin 2014 trailer english subs duration. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended.
Li l quinquin has an impressive girlfriend, played by lucy caron, cute, intelligent and needs li l for some reason. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title ptit quinquin. Bruno dumont on why tiff comedy lil quinquin feels like. Well, fear dumonts unsettling vision of humanity no more. A quiet summer playing pirates takes a surprise turn for franklin with the appearance of his worldtraveling aunt lucy. A mysterious treasure map leads franklin and his friends to turtle lake, on a quest to find a longburied lucky charm he hopes will. The fourpart series lil quinquin, which he developed for arte france, screened as a 200minute film in the directors fortnight section during the cannes film festival, and had critics. Mar 25, 2015 festival, lil quinquin has been compared to twin peaks and true detective.
To optimize your experience with your screen reading software, please use our website, which has the same tickets as our fandango. Originally premiering as a film at the 2014 cannes film festival in may and subsequently for international releases, it was broadcast in september 2014 as a miniseries on french television a sequel, coincoin and the extrahumans coincoin et les zinhumains. Lil quinquin tv miniseries 2014 lil quinquin tv mini. Lil quinquin, a new mystery by bruno dumont the new. Lil quinquin is one of the strangest films i have ever seen. A grim arthouse director made a comeback by embracing. Dumonts foray into miniseries format filled with his brand of peculiar humor provocative auteur bruno dumont lets loose his comedic side with a four part miniseries, lil quinquin, shown as one long piece at the cannes film festival. A bumbling police officer investigates a series of murders involving human remains found inside dead cows.
While it apparently will be released in english speaking territories in the same fashion, its purposeful structure does make it seem better. It may sound weird for a film about brutal murders, but maestro bruno dumont gives us a charming and often funny story, too. Emphasis on evil, present from the outset, becomes more and more prominent, and by the beginning of the final episode things are looking grim. Jul 09, 2015 at any rate, ptit quinquin revisits the themes and tropes of dumonts early film lhumanite 1999. The bumbling rural police detective in bruno dumonts lil quinquin appears to have only the most tenuous grasp of the grisly mystery uncovered in his sleepy farm community. Lil quinquin does feature an unpredecented amount meaning any at all, really of intentional humor, but its still a bruno dumont movie through and through, for better and worse. Lil quinquin, a new mystery by bruno dumont the new york. It is the start of the summer holidays for quinquin and it is also the start of a local killing spree after a woman is found chopped up and fed to a cow, who is found dead in an old bunker. It is the start of the summer holidays for quinquin, and it is also the start of a local killing spree after a woman is found chopped up and fed to a cow, who is found. With alane delhaye, lucy caron, bernard pruvost, philippe jore. The human beast stefan drees a very promising start.
Reviewed in the united states on december 16, 2015. But simply speaking, lil quinquin is a wonderfully weird and unexpectedly hilarious scott foundas, variety masterwork. Lil quinquin has an impressive girlfriend, played by lucy caron, cute, intelligent and needs lil for some reason. Theres funny, and then theres sublimely hysterical. Jan 02, 2015 lil quinquin is a quasiepic farce that mostly wears a poker face as it elaborates his continuing obsession with the collision of humankinds bestial and spiritual impulses. Dont expect stunning visuals or much in terms of spectacle. Provocative auteur bruno dumont lets loose his comedic side with a four part miniseries, lil quinquin, shown as one long piece at the cannes film festival. The term fits that definition only if you understand that he means the. Shown as one epic, 197minute film in the cannes directors fortnight sidebar, lil quinquin confirms that, even in continental europe, some. Lil quinquin 2014 bruno dumonts 1999 cannes prizewinner humanite is notorious for its intensely slow pace, overtones of religious allegory, and unsettling closeups of the body of a raped and murdered child. Ptit quinquin lil quinquin 2014 pelicula completa en. An improbable, screwball, and slapstick police investigation into bizarre crimes on the outskirts of a small channel town in the boulonnais that has fallen prey to evil, and to a band of young scoundrels led by lil quinquin and his beloved eve.
Ptit quinquin begins like the prequel to hors satan no one in their right mind would ask for, with a young boy alane delhaye, the quinquin of the title trying to impress a girl by killing a mouse on a sprawling farm. Ptit quinquin ptit quinquin song this disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title ptit quinquin. By nicolas rapold in the septemberoctober 2014 issue. May 22, 2014 shown as one epic, 197minute film in the cannes directors fortnight sidebar, lil quinquin confirms that, even in continental europe, some of cinemas name auteurs have no qualms about. While it apparently will be released in english speaking territories in the. Sep 10, 2014 the fourpart series lil quinquin, which he developed for arte france, screened as a 200minute film in the directors fortnight section during the cannes film festival, and had critics. Subtitles lil quinquin subtitles english 1cd srt eng. Dec 14, 2014 lil quinquin trailer new release film at lincoln center. As it progresses, however, it slowly metamorphoses into a regular old dumont film albeit still a much funnier one than usual, with fewer grotesque provocations.
Monsieur le commandantsporting a cartoon mustache, clad in granddad windbreaker, constantly and. Although, its debatable exactly how important the mystery is, or if its even the point. French auteur bruno dumont, best known for uncompromising and austere dramas, proves with the comedy lil quinquin that he is capable of shifting gears without conceding his signature style. Philippe jore, bernard pruvost, lucy caron, alane delhaye. Starring alane delhaye, lucy caron, bernard pruvost, and philippe jore. The french filmmaker bruno dumont has described his mesmerizing 197minute murder mystery, lil quinquin, as a comedy. Get 50% off hundreds of family movies when you preorder on fandangonow today. A new poster for lil quinquin, the first great film of. But its also set up exactly like an offbeat mystery novel, complete with an eccentric, memorably named, creatureofhabit. The thing youll remember about ptit quinquin, over even the most perfectly timed joke or the adorably misshapen head of quinquin, is the face of bernard pruvost, as the detective protecting his flock from the murderer. Lil quinquin bruno dumont becomes the latest arthouse auteur to try his hand at longform tv with a wonderfully weird and unexpectedly hilarious murder mystery. But its also set up exactly like an offbeat mystery novel, complete with an eccentric, memorably named, creatureofhabit detective lt.
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