Mandibles

When two simple-minded best friends find a giant fly trapped in the trunk of a stolen car, they decide to train it in hopes of striking it rich.

Cast

Grégoire Ludig

as Manu / Fred Breton

David Marsais

as Jean-Gab

Adèle Exarchopoulos

as Agnès

India Hair

as Cécile

Roméo Elvis

as Serge

Coralie Russier

as Sandrine

Bruno Lochet

as Gilles

Raphaël Quenard

as Raimondo

Marius Colucci

as Gendarme 1

Thomas Blanchard

as Gendarme 2

Reviews

Chris Sawin

Quentin Dupieux has always made strange films that usually can’t be categorized as anything other than bizarre. His filmmaking career seems to have culminated with Deerskin, which is his funniest and most coherent film to date. Mandibles feels like a withdrawn version of Dupieux though. There’s a gi...

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