Mandibles

Two dimwitted friends hatch a money-making scheme after discovering a giant fly in the trunk of a car.

Cast

Grégoire Ludig

as Manu

David Marsais

as Jean-Gab

Adèle Exarchopoulos

as Agnès

India Hair

as Cécile

Bruno Lochet

as Gilles

Coralie Russier

as Sandrine

Roméo Elvis

as Serge

Thomas Blanchard

as Gendarme 2

Gaspard Augé

as Agent de sécu

Marius Colucci

as Gendarme 1

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 Mandibles feels like a withdrawn version of Dupieux though.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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