By Daniel Rutledge
If you don’t like movies that try something different from the norm, stay well away from this oddity.
All I knew about the film before watching it was that it was about a tyre with telekinesis and was pretty much the only film the movie geek websites raved about at Cannes last year.
I don’t want to give away much more that that except to say that a character at the beginning of the film explains that it is dedicated to things happening for ‘no reason’. From then on it is the tale of the evil tyre that rolls around on a killing spree. Well, that’s the main storyline, there is a fourth-wall busting concurrent storyline happening in it too, but I really don’t want to give that away.
Rubber is as mad as a bag of frogs and unlike anything I’ve ever seen, but not in an annoyingly over-quirky way, despite coming from a French filmmaker. Even though there is a large amount of randomness or ‘no reason’ in the film, I was fully engaged from beginning to end.
It’s a very enjoyable flick that comes highly recommended.
Four stars.
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Note: This film is playing as part of the World Cinema
Showcase
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