Repost: Li'l Quinquin (March 9th at the Cleveland Cinematheque)

[LI'L QUINQUIN screens Monday March 9th at 6:45 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

A bucolic seaside town in France is rocked by a series of bizarre murders, starting with a double homicide in which the victims' body parts are found inside the carcasses of dead cows, in L'IL QUINQUIN. Captain Van der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost), his face a constantly contorting ball of tics, heads up the investigation. His driver and foil is Lieutenant Carpentie (Philippe Jore), who treats every car trip as an excuse to try out his stunt driving skills. The captain is bothered almost as much by a group of bike riding adolescents led by Li'l Quinquin (Alane Delhaye), a racist juvenile delinquent whose only redeeming quality is his love for neighbor girl Eve (Lucy Caron), as he is by the gruesome nature of the murders. To him, both are equally signs that the world he's living in is the Devil's domain.

French film "Li'l Quinquin" rescheduled for 3/9/15

[Press release from the Cleveland Cinematheque.]

This Cinematheque film that was not show last week due to the frigid weather has been rescheduled for Monday, March 9.

Monday, March 9, at 6:45 pm

LI'L QUINQUIN

P'TIT QUINQUIN

France, 2014, Bruno Dumont

A comedy from Bruno Dumont (Humanité, Hadewijch), France’s foremost proponent of miserablism and heir to the ascetic spiritual striving of Robert Bresson? Stranger things have happened, especially in Dumont’s miracle-laden movies. Li'l Quinquin, originally a four-part miniseries for French TV, is set in sea-swept, sparsely populated northern France (the rural setting of most of Dumont's films). There two provincial cops try to solve a series of bizarre murders while a mischievous moppet (li'l Quinquin) looks on. Cahiers du Cinéma named this the best film of 2014. “A wonderfully weird and unexpectedly hilarious murder mystery.” –Variety. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. Blu-ray. 200 min. www.kinolorber.com Special admission $11; members and those age 25 & under $9; no passes, twofers, or radio winners. This film supported by a generous grant from Maison Française de Cleveland.

Li'l Quinquin (February 19th and 20th at the Cleveland Cinematheque)

[LI'L QUINQUIN screens Thursday February 19th at 6:45 pm and Friday February 20th at 7:30 pm at the Cleveland Cinematheque.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

A bucolic seaside town in France is rocked by a series of bizarre murders, starting with a double homicide in which the victims' body parts are found inside the carcasses of dead cows, in L'IL QUINQUIN. Captain Van der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost), his face a constantly contorting ball of tics, heads up the investigation. His driver and foil is Lieutenant Carpentie (Philippe Jore), who treats every car trip as an excuse to try out his stunt driving skills. The captain is bothered almost as much by a group of bike riding adolescents led by Li'l Quinquin (Alane Delhaye), a racist juvenile delinquent whose only redeeming quality is his love for neighbor girl Eve (Lucy Caron), as he is by the gruesome nature of the murders. To him, both are equally signs that the world he's living in is the Devil's domain.