UofR's Department of Modern Languages and Cultures will screen Réalité (Reality, Quentin Dupleux, France 2014, 95 min.) in Hoyt Auditorium as part of the The Tournées Film Festival: ABCDs in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema.

Combine David Lynch's head-scratching wildness and Charlie Kaufman's hilarious worst-case scenarios, throw in a pinch of Luis Buñuel's wicked irreverence and a streak of cruel French humor, and you won't quite have Quentin Dupieux's Reality, but you'll be a little closer to understanding how far outside convention this delightfully fearless, mind-bending comedy dwells. In Reality, a French filmmaker in California finds a movie-house that is already screening the film he is in the process of writing, a little girl tries to watch a big blue videotape she found inside a hog's stomach, and a cooking show host endangers his livelihood by constantly scratching at a full-body rash that no one else can see. By making his characters intersect in the realm of the impossible, Dupieux masterfully collapses the distance between dream and reality and returns to film's primal role in the collective unconscious. Working in a sui generis genre that can both stand up to psychoanalytic exegesis and provide riotous late-night viewing, Dupieux has established himself as one of the last mad scientists of French cinema. While he is currently seen as little more than a cult outsider, it is only a matter of time before he is recognized as one of the great originals of our age.

[source: UofR Department of Modern Languages and Cultures page, 2016-Oct-17]