Rubber (2010 film)
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| Directed by | Quentin Dupieux |
| Produced by | Gregory Bernard Julien Berlan Kevos Van Der Meiren |
| Written by | Quentin Dupieux |
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Stephen Spinella Roxane Mesquida Jack Plotnick Haley Ramm Wings Hauser Ethan Cohn |
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Gaspard Augé Mr. Oizo |
| Cinematography | Quentin Dupieux |
| Edited by | Quentin Dupieux |
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| Distributed by | UFO Distribution (France) Magnet Releasing (US) |
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82 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000 |
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| Soundtrack album by Gaspard Augé and Mr. Oizo | |
| Released | November 8, 2010 |
| Genre | House |
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Rubber is a 2010 English-language French independent dark comedy horror film about a tire that comes to life and kills people with its psychic powers. It was directed and written by Quentin Dupieux. Executive Producer was Gregory Bernard. The film was produced by Realitism Films. The film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. The film received positive reviews from critics.
A group of people in a California desert are gathered to watch a "film". A sheriff, Chad (Stephen Spinella), points out that many moments in cinema happen for "no reason", that life is full of this "no reason", and that "this film" (presumably a dual reference to both the "film" to be watched by the assembled group and Rubber itself) is an homage to "no reason".
An accountant (Jack Plotnick) then passes out binoculars to the group and rides off on a bicycle. The spectators then start looking through their binoculars into the distance, waiting for the "film" to start. Throughout the film, this group of people return in order to gauge their reactions to what has taken place so far.
In the late 1990s, somewhere in a California desert, a tire named Robert suddenly comes to life. At first, it learns how to stand upright and then how to roll. It comes across a plastic water bottle and, after hesitating, crushes it. It then comes across a scorpion and crushes it. It then comes across a glass beer bottle but is unable to crush it by rolling over it. It then starts to vibrate intensely and psychokinetically causes the bottle to fracture. It then induces a tin can and a rabbit to explode.
The tire then sees a woman (Roxane Mesquida) drive by and attempts to use its powers on her. However, it only succeeds in making her car stall. As the tire begins to roll towards her stalled car, a truck comes by and runs the tire over. This breaks the connection, allowing the woman's car to start again and she continues on her way. The tire explodes a pied crow, then finds the man that had been driving the truck which ran him over and blows up his head.
Arriving in a nearby desert town, the tire comes across the woman in the car. She is staying in a motel and, after watching her shower through an open door, the tire goes into the room next to hers. After the motel maid finds the tire showering and throws it out of the room, the tire reenters the room and blows up her head. Chad, the sheriff from the opening of the movie, shows up to investigate the murders. Chad is both inside and outside the diegesis, sometimes participating in the narrative action and sometimes commenting on it.
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