"It's clear to everyone that their closeness is holding him back." Dark Star Pics has revealed the official US trailer for an indie sci-fi creation called Tropic, also known as Tropique, originally from France. (It also goes under the title Things Behind the Stars.) This first premiered at both Fantastic Fest 2022 and also at the Sitges Film Festival more then a year ago, but is only now getting released in theaters in 2023. It already opened in France a few months ago, and arrives in the US (in theaters then on VOD later) in December. As twin brothers and best friends Lázaro and Tristán train together for the Astronaut Academy tests, they find themselves facing a greater challenge. When disaster strikes, the pair must find their place in a world where there is no room for monsters. A mysterious meteor from space crashes down, completely deforming one of the brothers, turning...
- 11/28/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Mainstream cinema conveniently assumes that humanity will unify in the face of otherworldly calamities like an alien invasion or zombie apocalypse. By doing so, popcorn entertainment allows audiences to defiantly believe that they would also act nobly and courageous once the sky starts falling. Because who wants to watch a version of Independence Day where Will Smith’s heroic fighter pilot philosophically second guesses himself while murderous extra-terrestrials run rough shod over America? Possibly Bruno Dumont. The great French auteur feels no such allegiances to Hollywood’s delusional fantasies. Like Jacques Tati, he actually wants to subvert their traditional narrative constructs using brazen comedic timing and densely packed mise-en-scène. Look no further than CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans, which revels in the absurdity of our collective inertia. For 3+ hours it shows why glamorizing mankind’s response to global chaos remains an utterly ridiculous endeavor. Far more so than even the bumbling,...
- 6/14/2019
- MUBI
CoinCoin, formerly known as Li’l Quinquin in Bruno Dumont’s film of the same title, is back in CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans (CoinCoin et les Z’inhumains). His name change, like the various physical and learning disabilities of the actors playing citizens of Dumont’s native Côte d’Opale, goes unexplained. It’s simply part of the story. If you’ve seen Li’l Quinquin, you know details like gendarme Van Der Weyden’s (Bernard Pruvost) Tourettes-twitching is constant, used for comedic effect, and as Dumont told the Guardian, “You have to decide whether or not you’re looking at something that disturbs you.”
Like Li’l Quinquin, CoinCoin was made for Franco-German network Arte. Both were broken into four parts for television but screened as one film at festivals. CoinCoin stands alone in many ways, but to understand the last thirty, delightful minutes of the story, you’ll need to see Quinquin first.
Like Li’l Quinquin, CoinCoin was made for Franco-German network Arte. Both were broken into four parts for television but screened as one film at festivals. CoinCoin stands alone in many ways, but to understand the last thirty, delightful minutes of the story, you’ll need to see Quinquin first.
- 3/2/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Bruno Dumont – the French auteur director of acclaimed films Ma Loute, Hors Satan, Flandres, L’Humanite, La Vie De Jésus, and Jeannette, l’enfance de Jeanne d’Arc – is no stranger to the Cannes Film Festival, as each of the aforementioned films have premiered there. It’s no surprise then that the festival made an exception to their strict set of prestigious guidelines and premiered Dumont’s 4-episode television mini-series Li’l Quinquin as a 210-minute epic in 2014.
The series, while being as provocative and relentlessly singular as the rest of Dumont’s body of work, was well-received, even topping Cahiers du cinéma’s best of the year list. In February of last year, news broke that Dumont was developing a second season, and now we finally have a teaser trailer.
Titled Coincoin and the Extra-Humans, the second season will center on Coincoin and two cops (Bernard Pruvost and Philippe Jore...
The series, while being as provocative and relentlessly singular as the rest of Dumont’s body of work, was well-received, even topping Cahiers du cinéma’s best of the year list. In February of last year, news broke that Dumont was developing a second season, and now we finally have a teaser trailer.
Titled Coincoin and the Extra-Humans, the second season will center on Coincoin and two cops (Bernard Pruvost and Philippe Jore...
- 5/24/2018
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
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