Keep an Eye Out

2018 ‘Au poste !’ Directed by Quentin Dupieux

Police officers at a station must solve a murder case.

Benoît Poelvoorde Grégoire Ludig Marc Fraize Anaïs Demoustier Philippe Duquesne Jacky Lambert Orelsan Jeanne Rosa Vincent Grass Laurent Nicolas Alain Chabat Michel Hazanavicius Pedro Winter July Messéan

Alternative Titles

At the Office!, Die Wache

comedy

73 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★ 1

Writer/director/cinematographer/editor Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Reality, Wrong Cops) is no stranger to turning the table on conventional narratives. With Benoît Poelvoorde as Commissioner Buron, he interrogates Louis Fugain (Grégoire Ludig). Fugain voices his hunger as Buron gives him a half-eaten candy bar.
As the story unfolds, new details emerge and Fugain's culpability ebbs and flows with the changing tide. Keep an Eye Out is as zany as Dupieux's other films. The characters never take the easy road either in regard to their actions or the dialogue.
A family affair, Dupieux's wife, Joan Le Boru, was the production designer. It's also interesting to note that Dupieux contacted Ludig on Twitter initially to recruit him for the role.
Definitely check out the film…
Review by avokiddo ★★★★★

c'est pour ça
Review by LeSchroeck ★★★★ 9

Sitges Film Festival 2018, Film 1: Ein Verhör, das nicht enden will. Der Verhörte, der in seinen Erinnerungen nicht mehr allein ist. Ein angebissener Schokoriegel. Ein Geodreieck mit dem man exakte 80-Grad-Winkel zeichnen kann. Ein Loch aus dem Rauch dringt. Das Wort "tatsächlich". Ein Mann, der in roter Unterhose ein Orchester dirigiert. Ein Cop, den nicht mal die Selbstmordgedanken seines Sohnes aus der Ruhe bringen. Wer wissen will, wie und warum diese Elemente zusammenhängen (mal abgesehen von dem Unterhosen-Dirigent), der befindet sich im neuesten Werk von Quentin Dupieux. Wer glaubt oder erwartet, dass es seiner Vorstellung von Logik entspricht, ist im falschen Film. Wer bereits andere Filme von Mr. Oizo kennt, wird eine richtig witzige Zeit und mehr Zugang als…
Review by Kristen Yoonsoo Kim ★★★

Review for the NYT:
A man finds a dead body outside his apartment and reports it to the police. What should be, in any other circumstance, probably a lot of boring paperwork, turns into a twisty, farcical procedural once it breaks the facade of banality. The first clue that the story will go completely off the rails is that it was directed by Quentin Dupieux, the French electronic musician (Mr. Oizo) turned absurdist filmmaker (“Rubber,” “Deerskin”). The second clue? Well, maybe the fact that the movie begins with an event — the arrest of a nearly nude orchestra conductor — that has nothing to do with the rest of the story.
“Keep an Eye Out” mostly takes place inside an…
Review by Disgustipated ★★★★★

A farcical 70 minute police interrogation, executed by the most exasperating police detectives ever, as the whole turd of a shamozzle spirals into a shit-show of stupendous absurdity.
And they play around with flashbacks, and screw around with the infallibility of memory, and call into question the very nature of truth itself. The borders between each are as porous as a condom punched full of holes by a Catholic prophylactic saboteur.
Actually, it was kind of fun, actually. It was also a little bit thought provoking, actually. And at times pretty stupid, actually. So, I liked it, actually.
Review by DavidFortin ★★★★ 7

Dupieux atteint une maitrise de son cinéma. Le rythme, les dialogues, les idées, la déconstruction. Et un peu comme avec Réalité il a encore une fois trouvé un acteur (Poelvoorde) qui fonctionne parfaitement dans son univers. Et moi j'adore les déconstructions narratives qui se retournent sur elles-mêmes... c'est pour ça !
Et y a du Bunuel dans l'air
Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★

54/100
A.V. Club review. Lots of random absurdity that never quite gels into something satisfying, i.e. par for the course. Though I briefly thought/hoped Dupieux was gonna go all-in on his nonsense flashback concept, which I discovered the hard way is impossible to describe without writing yourself into knots.
Review by Cinekraut ★★★★

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Yes, I watched this film two times today (I had to rewatch it with my girlfriend immediately). Probably the most accessible Quentin Dupieux film (at least from the ones I've seen) and one of his funniest yet. It's a diverting film not only due its short run time of 70-ish minutes but also due to its great storytelling and surprise ending. I really need to see Rubber now. Doesn't quite hold up on a rewatch but I still really liked it (initially 4.5 stars, now 4 stars).
Review by Mathieu Chevalier ★★★★

Classement: 2018
C'était génial et poussif, c'est pour ça.
Review by Laurent Boutin ★★★★½

C'est pas si souvent que 100% des lignes de dialogue d'un film sont à pleurer de rire c'est pour ça
Review by Outpost_31 ★★★★½

4* + 0.5* pour avoir crédité Alain Chabat comme "Cri de douleur"
Review by Sophie Isabelle G. Velasquez ★★★★½ 4

J'adore ce film mais à chaque visionnement je me rappelle les fois où j'ai voulu convaincre des gens de le regarder et que dans le vif du moment j'ai cru bon d'essayer de décrire à voix haute quelques scènes, pour finalement passer plus de temps à m'étouffe de rire qu'à expliquer quelconque potentiel de marrade. Sans surprise, mes efforts ont souvent étés récompensés par des hochements de tête et des petits sourires encourageants mais clairement forcés et ÇA c'est le genre de truc qui me garde éveillée la nuit (ou plutôt, c'est pour ça (que je ne dors pas bien)).

Recent reviews

Review by lisabeesa

Oh, Quentin...
Review by Jonathan Hickman ★★★★

“Keep an Eye Out” is a sharp, funny, and unusual film.
Read my review online and in print in the Times-Herald: times-herald.com/news/2021/03/keep-an-eye-out-au-poste-absurd-french-comedy-is-bizarre-pleasure
Review by Benjamin Stone ★★★

Dupieux's bizarre vision of cop mystery. The grandness of the sets are contrasted with how confined everything feels, from the tension between the characters, and plot points. I felt myself examining the dialogue and intersction because in Dupeiux's world, the humor and nonsensical advancement comes from aloofness, confusion, and the inane. His world and films are constructed, and characters are created with a emtional cardboard. They are not human, but merely a cut out, representation. You are not sympathising or relating to his characters. You are examining them, these weird humanoids, and their unnerving inhumane-ness.
Most of his films do this examination, but he remains able to keep it interesting, obtuse, and funny
Review by Keith Carmichael ★★★

Actually quite funny actually.
Review by aperture cinema

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Review by Eamon @ Home ★★★★

Comedies in general, especially commercial releases, suck. Either they're lacking wit or trying to process too many real-life issues in a bid to be taken seriously which only contradicts the genre.
In his last few films, Quentin Dupiuex (director/writer/editor/cinematographer) blended multiple genres set in a Kafkaesque universe but always kept comedy in the forefront. Although his running times rarely surpass over 80 minutes, the scripts contained a broad array of ideas and themes. 2019's horror/comedy "Deerskin" focused on a man becoming so obsessed with his new coat that it drives him to slice and dice his way through a snowy village in the Pyrenees.
With "Keep an Eye Out", Dupieux maintains his surreal vision but it's inspired by noir and…
Review by Chris Brown ★★★★

Kafka by way of Monty Python, with just a dash of Bunuel.
Dupieux has fun this time with memory, guilt and perception as a supposedly innocent man is interrogated about his boring life as very unboring events unfold in the police station.
As with all Depieux's films, this was very funny and his distinct comedic surrealism always keeps my attention. An also, like his other films, you feel for the everyman who is trying to make sense of this ridiculous world of authority figures, experts and folks with agendas.
I'm sure any Depieux fan is going to have a blast with this, though it is probably his most low-key film. But the ideas are pretty "out there" even when they are contained to one small room.
Review by The Belcourt Theatre Nashville

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Synopsis:
Belgian funnyman Benoît Poelvoorde (MAN BITES DOG) is Commissaire Buran, a good, bad cop interrogating Fugain (Grégoire Ludig), an average Joe who discovered a dead body outside his apartment building. As the film begins, Fugain must, on an empty stomach, explain how and why he happened to leave home seven times in…
Review by caleb 🥪 ★★★

70 minutes long, fucking weird.... in many ways this is a perfect film
Review by Kristen Yoonsoo Kim ★★★

Review for the NYT:
A man finds a dead body outside his apartment and reports it to the police. What should be, in any other circumstance, probably a lot of boring paperwork, turns into a twisty, farcical procedural once it breaks the facade of banality. The first clue that the story will go completely off the rails is that it was directed by Quentin Dupieux, the French electronic musician (Mr. Oizo) turned absurdist filmmaker (“Rubber,” “Deerskin”). The second clue? Well, maybe the fact that the movie begins with an event — the arrest of a nearly nude orchestra conductor — that has nothing to do with the rest of the story.
“Keep an Eye Out” mostly takes place inside an…
Review by robbiez666 ★★★

A beautifully written crime comedy which toys with its audience like a cat toying with a mouse.
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Review by Allison M. 🌱 ★★★ 1

Writer/director/cinematographer/editor Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Reality, Wrong Cops) is no stranger to turning the table on conventional narratives. With Benoît Poelvoorde as Commissioner Buron, he interrogates Louis Fugain (Grégoire Ludig). Fugain voices his hunger as Buron gives him a half-eaten candy bar.
As the story unfolds, new details emerge and Fugain's culpability ebbs and flows with the changing tide. Keep an Eye Out is as zany as Dupieux's other films. The characters never take the easy road either in regard to their actions or the dialogue.
A family affair, Dupieux's wife, Joan Le Boru, was the production designer. It's also interesting to note that Dupieux contacted Ludig on Twitter initially to recruit him for the role.
Definitely check out the film…