Fantastic Fest 2010: Rubber Review

A sentient tire explodes human heads as well as concepts of the performer/audience dialectic.

By Jordan Hoffman at 3:10 PM
September 28, 2010

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fantastic fest rubber poster Credit: Mondo Tee

The new guy I want to know everything about is Quentin Dupieux. He is the writer, director, cinematographer, editor and one of the music composers behind Rubber, a very funny movie that is mostly about how audiences consume art, but is also, yes, about a killer tire.

As a living tire rolls through the desert, destroying all in its path for no real reason, we continually check back in with a group perched on a hill watching it all as "a movie." Interacting with the tire are a cast of freaks who may or may not be "real people" or plants put there by the movie's murderous producers.

Yes, I know, what I just wrote makes absolutely no sense. Maybe you just have to see Rubber when you can. (Luckily, this is one that is definitely getting a release.)

Below you can hear me speak a little more eloquently about why this movie is great. I give Rubber a solid A-.