At first, we find it rather curious that a simple tire moves alone, that it is endowed with intelligence and cruelty while being perfectly capable of killing its victims by practicing telepathy to literally make them explode. He kills everything that moves and above all, everything that upsets him, And Robert the Rubber, because the tire has a baptismal name, is very often upset. He is also in love with a charming young girl.
Robert le Rubber
And then, very quickly, we get used to it. We get used to the funny ideas of Quentin Dupieux, the director of this aptly named UFO Rubber. As one gets used to the idea that spectators, inside the film, watch the same scenes as us. We even end up finding them annoying. And we side with the real actors who try to kill them.
But what makes this film, where any notion of credibility is absent from the credits, take us into its crazy story? Of course, we are warned from the start that what we are about to see has no reason to exist. No reasonnot to be confused with nonsense. There is no absurd surreal message here. Anything can happen, and indeed, anything happens at any moment.
Still, we adhere to the adventures of Robert. thanks to the talent of Dupieux, the maniacal hard worker. The man is now at the head of a cinematographic work of 11 feature films, the last of which, Smoking makes you cough is currently in theaters. He has also directed 8 short films. But Dupieux is also, under the pseudonym of Mr Oizo, a techno musician who has signed 9 albums and produced as many. all with not only a talent for jack-of-all-trades, but a perfectionism that we already find in Rubber which dates from 2010.
Because if Doctor Jeckyll Oizo knew how to capture the sound of his time, Mister Dupieux knows like no other how to embark us on scenes where the most bizarre scenario takes on the appearance of normality, in particular thanks to his talent as a director, who proceeds with small modest touches. . Rubber is the first cinema film shot with a simple camera (a Canon 5D anyway) and without special effects, since the tire moves thanks to a small motor hidden inside.
However, at no time Rubber doesn’t take on bluette looks in Super 8. It’s a cinema feature film and real cinema. The false spectators who watch the film in the film end up poisoning themselves during a banquet and Dupieux, for 20 years, has poisoned us and made us addicted to his curious cinema and his funny sounds.