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Movie Info

Director:

Bruno Dumont

Cast & Crew

Bernard Pruvost

Alane Delhaye

Lucy Caron

Philippe Jore

Bruno Dumont
Director

Critic Reviews for Li'l Quinquin

All Critics (22) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (22)

The baroque body count is just a red herring, with France's insularity, chauvinism and bad blood the real devil here. It's a dark lesson in history which, released in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, seems all too prescient.

July 10, 2015

Anton Bitel
Little White Lies
P'tit Quinquin immerses you in the bucolic life of a French village near Boulogne, where a serial killer seems to be chopping up bodies.

July 9, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Kate Muir
Times (UK)
The injection of oddball humour does nothing to lessen the seriousness of the subject matter or the compassion with which Dumont regards his characters' hardscrabble lives.

July 9, 2015 | Full Review…

Ryan Gilbey
New Statesman
Dumont's supernaturally insoluble crimes are also influenced by Antonioni and Haneke, and his outrageous comic turns have also taken something from the French deadpan comedy specialists Benot Delpine and Gustave Kervern.

July 9, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
Heavyweight French auteur Bruno Dumont demonstrates his gift for deadpan comedy.

July 6, 2015 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Trevor Johnston
Time Out
The action seems to rise organically from the locale, and Dumont's grand yet intimate fiction fuses his inner world with the historical moment.

January 5, 2015 | Full Review…

Richard Brody
New Yorker
While Li'l Quinquin arguably works better if viewed in four separate pieces, it's another unique film from Dumont, whose knack for comedy is as delightfully off center as his more dramatic entries.

September 19, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
Dumont has a palpable relish for everything (and everyone) to which his script introduces us which is infectious, while leaving it up to viewers to qualify its underlying complexities.

November 22, 2017 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Tom Birchenough
The Arts Desk
Only this is his most vivacious, even affable work, blurring mystery and comedy-as if, some have noted, [Bruno] Dumont's taking the starch out of his big screen dramas with this warm, wacky small-screen series.

October 26, 2017 | Full Review…

Brian Gibson
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
A charming film of authorial authenticity that is placed in a strange humoristic-poetic alliance of criminal investigations and childhood mischief. [Full review in Spanish]

February 23, 2017 | Full Review…

Jorge Ayala Blanco
El Universal
Li'l Quinquin exists to suggest and provoke rather than declare, and is all the better for it.

February 25, 2016 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…

Forrest Cardamenis
The Film Stage
It may sound weird for a film about brutal murders, but maestro Bruno Dumont gives us a charming and often funny story, too.

July 14, 2015 | Rating: A- | Full Review…

Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews