Quentin Dupieux
The brilliant eccentric spins grotesque games of lust around the utterly unexpected
Born in 1974, director Quentin Dupieux has a penchant for the eccentric; within French cinema he is something of an unpredictable bird of paradise. As a filmmaker, he is self-taught, first making short films while becoming a star with electronic music under the pseudonym Mr. Oizo. In 1999, he staged various commercials with Flat Eric, a yellow hand puppet, with similar success: Eric's crazy head bobbing to the stuttering of the rhythm went around the world and became a kind of forerunner of today's meme culture. Dupieux conquered the cinema in 2010 with the anarchistic grotesque "Rubber", enriched with the twisted nonsense that became his trademark.