In "Mandibules", a film by Quentin Dupieux which comes out as soon as the theaters reopen, the Palmashow duo, David Marsais and Grégoire Ludig, play a couple of somewhat simplistic friends who find a giant fly in the trunk of a stolen car .

"It was not difficult to play the idiots", they say Wednesday on Europe 1.

INTERVIEW

It is the surrealist comedy of the return to cinema. Quentin Dupieux delivers with

Mandibules

a farce with a summer atmosphere in which David Marsais and Grégoire Ludig camp two slightly simpleton friends, Jean-Gab and Manu, who find in the trunk of a stolen car a giant fly. Penniless, they have the idea of ​​taming and training her, like a drone, to earn money. "It was not difficult to play idiots, we just had to find the tone, the barrier not to cross. After we had a lot of fun. Quentin

(Dupieux, nldr)

knows how to set the limits", says the duo of Palmashow Wednesday on Europe 1. 

Unclassifiable figure, with also a career as a musician under the name of Mr Oizo, the director made laugh with Eric and Ramzy in

Steak

, handled black humor in

Au Poste!

, with Benoît Poelvoorde and filmed Jean Dujardin obsessed with leather in

Le Daim

.

"He has no limit in the absurd, but when it comes to directing actors, he is very precise", explains David Marsais.

Adèle Exarchopoulos "exceptional"

After discovering their giant fly, the two friends embark on a burlesque road-trip, in landscapes with false airs of the Far West.

They then meet a band of wealthy individuals, including a young man played by singer Romeo Elvis and a young woman with a language disorder that prevents her from speaking without shouting, played by Adèle Exarchopoulos.

"She was exceptional. We were really blown away by her interpretation. She is so inhabited, we saw the great actress in her eyes", remembers Grégoire Ludig. 

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Disconcerting but endearing characters who give the film a pleasant lightness. "Jean-Gab and Manu have no nastiness, they do not take the lead. They are happy, their only goal is to find food. They laugh, have fun at nothing", smiles David Marsais. The Palmashow duo even find a few things in common with them. "They often say 'We don't care', something we said to each other a lot with Grégoire in our work. When we started, we played in theaters, we had terrible flop in theaters. people. And we would walk away saying 'We don't care'. "