Much brainier than a John Waters opus, Avida eructs with deadpan hilarity through a series of nonsequential comic set pieces.
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05/26/06
Avida (2008)
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Runtime: 83 mins
Synopsis: The pair behind 2004's AALTRA return with this surreal, gross-out comedy about what happens when the heavyset daughter of a millionaire is kidnapped by three captors with disabilities even more apparent than her own. [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine, Erik Martins
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Kervern and Delépine come across as children with fingerpaints and way too much free time. They create compelling set pieces, but can't quite get them to fit together successfully.
05/08/08
Somewhere between Monty Python, Jacques Tati and a slideshow of New Yorker cartoons, this critique of life's cruel inconsistency confirms the French co-directors' gift for reinterpreting surrealism in a humorously modern key.
05/22/06
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