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As usual with Dupieux, this film is quite absurd and many things seem to happen for no reason.
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As usual with Dupieux, this film is quite absurd absurd, and many things seem to happen for no reason.
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* ArtisticLicenseCars: At some point the old car doesn't start because it is out of gas[[note]](most of the time a car that runs out of gas would stop while driving)[[/note]]. Later Manu and Jean-Gab connect it to an other car's tank using a pipe, start it and then drive away in a few seconds. So lack of gas is treated like a low battery.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Agnès (Creator/AdeleExarchopoulos) is a woman who acts strangely and always shouts. Her friends say this is her normal way of talking since she hit her head in an accident.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Agnès (Creator/AdeleExarchopoulos) is a woman who acts strangely and always shouts. Her friends say this is her normal way of talking since she hit her head in an accident.
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* ArtisticLicenseCars: At some point the old car doesn't start because it is out of gas[[note]](most of the time a car that runs out of gas would stop while driving)[[/note]]. Later Manu and Jean-Gab connect it to an other another car's tank using a pipe, start it and then drive away in a few seconds. So lack of gas is treated like a low battery.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Agnès (Creator/AdeleExarchopoulos) is a woman who acts strangely and always shouts. Her friends say this is her normal way of talking since she hit her head in an accident.battery.
* AmbiguousDisorder: Agnès (Creator/AdeleExarchopoulos) is a woman who acts strangely and always shouts. Her friends say this is her normal way of talking since she hit her head in an accident.
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* SurrealHumor: This is a comedy about two friends trying to tame a giant fly that they found in the trunk of a car.
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* CassandraTruth: Agnès says that she saw a giant fly in the room of Jean-Gab, but nobody believes her. She is thought to be crazy and even takes the blame for the missing little dog.
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* CassandraTruth: Agnès says that she saw a giant fly in the room of Jean-Gab, but nobody believes her. She is thought to be crazy and even takes gets the blame for the missing little dog.
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* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:Poor Agnes gets the blame when the fly ends up eating a dog]]
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* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler:Poor Agnes gets Agnès says that she saw a giant fly in the room of Jean-Gab, but nobody believes her. She is thought to be crazy and even takes the blame when for the fly ends up eating a dog]]missing little dog.
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* GoAmongMadPeople: Agnès is thought to be crazy because she says that she saw a giant fly. Moreover, she is thought to have devoured the little dog. So she is brought to a psychiatric hospital in an ambulance.
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* RunningGag: Manu ends up sleeping outside in a wet place.
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* MistakenIdentity: A woman mistakes Manu for an ex boyfriend and invites the protagonists to her parents' place where she is spending a summer vacation with her brother and two friends. Manu plays along in order to get free food.
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* ConfrontingYourImposter: Cécile is convinced that Manu is Fred, her ex-boyfriend, until the real Fred shows up.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Cécile mistakes Manu for Fred, a boyfriend whom she has not seen since high school. The real Fred meets her by chance the next day.
* IdenticalStranger: Manu and Fred look very similar. They are both played by the same actor, Grégoire Ludig.
* MistakenIdentity:A woman Cécile mistakes Manu for an ex boyfriend ex-boyfriend and invites the protagonists to her parents' place where she is spending a summer vacation with her brother and two friends. Manu plays along in order to get free food.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Cécile mistakes Manu for Fred, a boyfriend whom she has not seen since high school. The real Fred meets her by chance the next day.
* IdenticalStranger: Manu and Fred look very similar. They are both played by the same actor, Grégoire Ludig.
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* SpottingTheThread: Manu and Fred look very similar (they are played by the same actor) and Manu can easily impersonate Fred, until Cécile notices that he does not have Fred's distinctive tattoo on the thigh. Manu explains that he removed it and Cécile buys the story.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Agnès (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a woman who acts strangely and always shouts. Her friends say this is her normal way of talking since she hit her head in an accident.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Agnès (Adèle Exarchopoulos) (Creator/AdeleExarchopoulos) is a woman who acts strangely and always shouts. Her friends say this is her normal way of talking since she hit her head in an accident.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Early in the film Manu and Jean-Gab assault a man and take things from him. He escapes from them, but apparently never complains to the police since they never run into them. (Of course he may be dead from an earlier TapOnTheHead).
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Early in the film Manu and Jean-Gab assault a man and take things from him. He escapes from them, but apparently never complains to the police since they never run into them. (Of course he may be dead from an earlier TapOnTheHead).TapOnTheHead).
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* CassandraTruth: [[Spoilers: Poor Agnes gets the blame when the fly ends up eating a dog]]
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* CassandraTruth: [[Spoilers: Poor [[spoiler:Poor Agnes gets the blame when the fly ends up eating a dog]]
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* CassandraTruth: [[Spoiler: Poor Agnes gets the blame when the fly ends up eating a dog]]
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* SecretHandshake: Manu and Jean-Gab do a simple one very often, saying "taureau"[[note]]bull[[/note]] while hitting each other's hand, whenever they greet or congratulate. Late in the film they are asked to explain it and are very awkward about it. Dupieux did that before in ''Film/{{Steak}}''.
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* SecretHandshake: Manu and Jean-Gab do a simple one very often, saying "taureau"[[note]]bull[[/note]] while hitting each other's hand, whenever they greet or congratulate. Late in the film they are asked to explain it and are very awkward about it. Dupieux did that used this trope before in ''Film/{{Steak}}''.
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* SecretHandshake: Manu and Jean-Gab do a simple one very often, saying "taureau"[[note]]bull[[/note]] while hitting each other's hand, whenever they greet or congratulate. Late in the film they are asked to explain it and are very awkward about it.
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* SecretHandshake: Manu and Jean-Gab do a simple one very often, saying "taureau"[[note]]bull[[/note]] while hitting each other's hand, whenever they greet or congratulate. Late in the film they are asked to explain it and are very awkward about it. Dupieux did that before in ''Film/{{Steak}}''.
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* SecretHandshake: Manu and Jean-Gab do a simple one very often, saying "taureau"[[note]]bull[[/note]] while hitting each other's hand, whenever they greet or congratulate. Late in the film they are asked to explain it and are very awkward about it.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Agnès (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a woman who acts strangely and always shouts. Her friends say this is her normal way of taking since she hit her head in an accident.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Agnès (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a woman who acts strangely and always shouts. Her friends say this is her normal way of taking talking since she hit her head in an accident.
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* PoliceAreUseless: Played with. Manu does very illegal things (assault, armed robbery, illegal use of a weapon) and police never seem to look for him. On the other hand no one is ever shown complaining to them. Late in the film they actually do something unrelated to Manu's crimes, in a very incompetent manner.
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* TapOnTheHead: Manu knocks a man unconscious and treats his body in a very dangerous manner. A few minutes later he seems to be fine.
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* TapOnTheHead: Manu knocks a man unconscious and treats his body in a very dangerous manner. A few minutes later he seems to be fine.fine.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Early in the film Manu and Jean-Gab assault a man and take things from him. He escapes from them, but apparently never complains to the police since they never run into them. (Of course he may be dead from an earlier TapOnTheHead).
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Early in the film Manu and Jean-Gab assault a man and take things from him. He escapes from them, but apparently never complains to the police since they never run into them. (Of course he may be dead from an earlier TapOnTheHead).
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* ArtisticLicenseCars: At some point the old car doesn't start because it is out of gas[[note]](most of the time a car that runs out of gas would stop while driving)[[/note]]. Later Manu and Jean-Gab connect it to an other car's tank using a pipe, start it and then drive away. So lack of gas is treated like a low battery.
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* ArtisticLicenseCars: At some point the old car doesn't start because it is out of gas[[note]](most of the time a car that runs out of gas would stop while driving)[[/note]]. Later Manu and Jean-Gab connect it to an other car's tank using a pipe, start it and then drive away.away in a few seconds. So lack of gas is treated like a low battery.
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* ArtisticLicenseCars: At some point the old car doesn't start because it is out of gas[[note]](most of the time a car that runs out of gas would stop while driving)[[/note]]. Later Manu and Jean-Gab connect it to an other car's tank using a pipe, start it and then drive away. So lack of gas is treated like a low battery.
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Manu (Grégoire Ludig) is a simple-minded, homeless man who is offered a shady but profitable job: he has to deliver a package and not ask what is inside. He steals a car and takes his best friend Jean-Gab (David Marsais) with him. On their way they find a giant fly and decide to tame it in order to earn money.
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Manu (Grégoire Ludig) is a simple-minded, homeless man who is offered a shady but profitable job: he has to deliver a package and not ask what is inside. He steals a car and takes his best friend Jean-Gab (David Marsais) with him. On their way they find a giant fly (a puppet animated by Dave Chapman) and decide to tame it in order to earn money.
"earn" money (they make vague plans about the giant fly stealing for them).
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* SpecialPersonNormalName: The delivery job consists in taking a package from a wealthy man named Michel Michel (while Michel is a common name, being named Michel Michel sounds silly) to an other wealthy man who is not named.
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* SpecialPersonNormalName: The delivery job consists in taking a package from a wealthy man named Michel Michel (while Michel is a common name, being named Michel Michel sounds silly) to an other wealthy man who is not named.named.
* TapOnTheHead: Manu knocks a man unconscious and treats his body in a very dangerous manner. A few minutes later he seems to be fine.
* TapOnTheHead: Manu knocks a man unconscious and treats his body in a very dangerous manner. A few minutes later he seems to be fine.
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* TheAllegedCar: The car that Manu steals is an old Mercedes. Everyone but him looks down on it, and the trunk becomes stuck closed the second time he attempts to open it.
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* MistakenIdentity: A woman mistakes Manu for an ex boyfriend and invites the protagonists to her parents' place where she is spending a summer vacation with her brother and two friends. Manu plays along in order to get free food.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Agnès (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is a woman who acts strangely and always shouts. Her friends say this is her normal way of taking since she hit her head in an accident.
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''Mandibles'' (French: ''Mandibules'') is a 2021 French-Belgian comedy directed by Creator/QuentinDupieux.
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''Mandibles'' (French: ''Mandibules'') is a 2021 2021[[note]](it premiered at Venice Film Festival in 2020 but its release was delayed due do the covid-19 pandemic)[[/note]] French-Belgian comedy directed by Creator/QuentinDupieux.
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* ShoutOut: Jean-Gab may be named after Creator/JeanGabin.
* SpecialPersonNormalName: The delivery job consists in taking a package from a wealthy man named MichelMichelMichel (while Michel is a common name, being named Michel Michel sounds silly) to an other wealthy man who is not named.
* SpecialPersonNormalName: The delivery job consists in taking a package from a wealthy man named Michel
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''Mandibles'' (French: ''Mandibules'') is a 2021 French-Belgian comedy directed by Creator/QuentinDupieux.
Manu (Grégoire Ludig) is a simple-minded, homeless man who is offered a shady but profitable job: he has to deliver a package and not ask what is inside. He steals a car and takes his best friend Jean-Gab (David Marsais) with him. On their way they find a giant fly and decide to tame it in order to earn money.
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* SpecialPersonNormalName: Michel Michel
Manu (Grégoire Ludig) is a simple-minded, homeless man who is offered a shady but profitable job: he has to deliver a package and not ask what is inside. He steals a car and takes his best friend Jean-Gab (David Marsais) with him. On their way they find a giant fly and decide to tame it in order to earn money.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* SpecialPersonNormalName: Michel Michel
