Hoping to find traction during Critics’ Week in Cannes, Rubber is a Gallic twist on the standard psychic serial-killer tire story. Call it Pneu Noir. Jeff Wells quotes director Quentin Dupieux:
“I’m still naive enough to believe that there is still room for unconscious and format-free films. The too formatted films, structured as emotional machines, annoy me. I like the idea of doing a film on a living tire, with no narrative structure nor dramatic stakes. It’s possible!
…Around the age of 12, my father’s video camera made me feel like filming. Then I discovered horror movies in video clubs and I instinctively needed to remake some fragments at home. And why a tire? I can’t answer questions starting by why. Life is full of mysteries. Why don’t we see the air around us? Why a tire? This is the same question.”
Exactly. Teaser trailer after the cut.
Clips and stills at the official site.