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Faux-provocative ‘Wrong’ only serves to aggravate its audience

Wrong Directed by Quentin Dupieux Written by Quentin Dupieux USA, 2012 The new film Wrong, from writer-director Quentin Dupieux, is less a movie and more a feature-length experiment in provocative trolling. If you find the film deliberately, obnoxiously unpleasant, well, you’re just a fuddy-duddy. You can’t accept the intentionally odd tone as being a charming …

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TADFF 2012: Audience Awards and Justin’s Five Festival Favourites

Toronto – With twenty horror, sci-fi, action, and cult movies crammed into nine nights, and an eclectic mix of short films thrown in between, the Toronto After Dark Film Festival 2012 gave the Toronto genre fan a multitude of reasons to be sleep-deprived. Before going into a sustained state of hibernation, audiences cast their ballot for which …

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‘Wrong’ Movie Review – an experiment in Kafkaesque storytelling

Wrong Written and directed by Quentin Dupieux USA, 2012 An aptronym, or charactonym, is when a person’s profession or career is aptly expressed by their strangely befitting name. For example, if your name is Anita Baker and you become bread-monger, or if your name is Dan Druff and you become a barber, then this constitutes …

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Fantastic Fest 2012: ‘Wrong’ trite and tireless in pursuing the absurd

Wrong Directed by Quentin Dupieux Written by Quentin Dupieux USA, 2012 Written and directed by Quentin Dupieux (Rubber), Wrong initially intrigues in its refusal to conform to convention, but tirelessly wears out its viewer throughout all of its banal aimlessness. The film’s world becomes predictably baffling and increasingly dull as we embark on a bizarre …

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Fantasia 2012: ‘Wrong”s divisiveness makes it right for some, terribly wrong for others

Wrong Directed by Quentin Dupieux Written by Quentin Dupieux U.S.A., 2012 Two years ago writer and director Quentin Dupieux brought Rubber to Fantasia and the world at large, which told the story of an evil tire which rolled around and killed people. On one side of the film fan community it was hailed as clever, …

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