1. Quentin Dupieux has directed numerous films including Rubber, Wrong, Wrong Cops, and Reality.
19 Facts About Quentin Dupieux
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Quentin Dupieux's pseudonym is a corruption of the French, meaning "bird".
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Quentin Dupieux is signed to F Communications, Ed Banger Records and Brainfeeder.
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Quentin Dupieux was born on 14 April 1974 in Paris.
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Quentin Dupieux released "Flat Beat" in January 1999, a track consisting mainly of a repeated bass loop and a drum sample from "Put Your Love in My Tender Care" by The Fatback Band.
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Quentin Dupieux worked alongside Feadz, SebastiAn, Mirwais, J-Mat and Uffie to produce and write the album.
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Quentin Dupieux produced the first single from the album, "MCs Can Kiss", which peaked at number 48 in Japan and 97 in France.
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At the age of 15, Quentin Dupieux became passionate about making movies.
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The film ended up being a box-office bomb and the only film by Quentin Dupieux that did not receive an international release.
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Quentin Dupieux directed the opening credit sequence for the adult animated series Moot-Moot, created by Eric and Ramzy, broadcast on Canal+ the same year.
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Quentin Dupieux's breakthrough came in 2010 with the release of the horror-comedy film Rubber.
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In 2013, Quentin Dupieux released the comedy Wrong Cops, featuring an ensemble cast including Eric Wareheim, Steve Little, Ray Wise, and Marilyn Manson.
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Quentin Dupieux returned in 2014 with the surreal comedy Reality, starring Alain Chabat, distributed in the US by IFC Midnight.
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Reality would end the trend of Quentin Dupieux composing his own music for his films; instead, the film's soundtrack consists solely of the first five minutes of "Music With Changing Parts" by Philip Glass.
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In 2019, Quentin Dupieux returned with Deerskin, starring Jean Dujardin and Adele Haenel.
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Quentin Dupieux's films are highly surrealist in nature, and he has been compared to filmmakers such as Charlie Kaufman and Luis Bunuel, who Quentin Dupieux has cited as an inspiration.
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In interviews, Quentin Dupieux has frequently referenced the roles that dreams play in his movies, stating:.
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Quentin Dupieux's movies often consist of meta narratives: In the film Rubber, a group of "audience members" on-screen watch the events of the film take place; the film Reality is a film about a filmmaker attempting to create a suitable groan of pain for his new movie; in the climax of Keep an Eye Out, it is revealed the actors are part of a theater troupe that have been performing the events of the film on stage for an audience.
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Quentin Dupieux was promoted to "Officier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres" on 12 March 2019 by the Ministry of Culture.