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Things aren t necessarily the way they look in Keep an Eye Out

Things aren’t necessarily the way they look in ‘Keep an Eye Out’ Ty Burr © Dekanalog Benoît Poelvoorde (right) and Grégoire Ludig in Keep an Eye Out. The films of France’s Quentin Dupieux are short and blissfully strange: Their subjects include a homicidal automobile tire (“Rubber,” 2010) and a fringed leather jacket with a God complex (“Deerskin,” 2019). They operate according to their own interior logic and they don’t care if you follow along, which makes them either maddeningly obtuse or good Dada fun, depending on your tastes. “Keep an Eye Out,” made before “Deerskin” but arriving now in a virtual screening at the Boston French Film Festival, the Brattle Theatre, and on demand, is Dupieux’s most pared-down effort yet a slapstick Kafkaesque comedy of bureaucracy and bloodshed.

Keep An Eye Out: Quentin Dupieux s latest absurdist comedy

Availability Select and virtual theaters March 5 This particular example suffers a bit from visual monotony, as most of it takes place in a French police office that’s notable mostly for its blinding array of overhead fluorescent lights. There, Chief Inspector Buron (Benoît Poelvoorde, a Belgian actor still best known in the States for starring in and co-directing 1993’s Man Bites Dog) interrogates a murder suspect, Louis Fugain, who insists that he simply found a dead body outside his apartment building and phoned the authorities. In theory, the film’s narrative consists of a painstaking reconstruction of his actions on the night in question, which raised suspicion because A) a nosy woman in his building saw him leave it and return no fewer than seven times between midnight and dawn, and B) Fugain’s iron, of all things, was found beside the corpse, which had had its skull split open. Fugain has perfectly rational explanations for everything, though he decides not to tak

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