Video & On Demand - P'tit Quinquin DVD and VOD

Emma Simmonds, The List

'Dumont plays along with murder-mystery expectations – throwing in red herrings and shifting suspicions – but also manages to balance ‘Twin Peaks’-style madcap running gags with a serious meditation on human evil.'

Trevor Johnston, Time Out

★★★★

'a wonderfully strange and wickedly humorous tale'

Ben Nicholson, Cinevue

★★★★

'Mesmerising'

Jamie Graham, Total Film

Scott Foundas, Variety

‘a quasi-remake, in farcical mode, of the director’s 1999 murder drama Humanity….a cross between Twin Peaks and Northern French comedy hit Welcome To The Sticks.’

Jonathan Romney, Screen International

‘…mesmerizing 197-minute murder mystery…the human comedy in all its grotesque and happy-sad variations…“Li’l Quinquin” is a quasi-epic farce that mostly wears a poker face as it elaborates his continuing obsession with the collision of humankind’s bestial and spiritual impulses…exquisitely photographed...’

Stephen Holden, The New York Times

‘…the haunting, transcendental style is very much a continuation of everything has made the director one of the most lauded on the world cinema circuit for nearly two decades… it's Twin Peaks meets The Little Rascals meets Little House on the Prairie. And it also works on a strange level as a remake of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.’

David Jenkins, Little White Lies

‘...both a Zolaesque revelation of brutality in the French countryside and a sly laugh riot. The director, Bruno Dumont, returns to his native northern France for a grand yet nuanced fresco of rural life that’s as intimate and loving as it is derisive and horrific.’

Richard Brody, The New Yorker

‘Something rare and rewarding: a Dumont film that paints its small-town milieu with as much humor as violence (though there's a fair dose of that, too) and finds some tenderness in life's absurdities.’

Abby Garnett, Village Voice

'The best movie that Bruno Dumont has made since L’Humanite (1999)'

Adam Nayman, Cinemascope

'Dumont packs in the literary and cinematic references in exchange for the usual suspense of the television mystery.'

Sarah Winshall, Under the Radar

'The film twists itself every time you get think you get a handle on it, mixing violence and humanism, frivolous jokes with profound considerations of behavior.'

Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy

Der Weyden (Bernard Pruvost) is 'this season's most offbeat detective, beating out even Joaquin Phoenix's coke-snorting Doc Sportello in "Inherent Vice".'

Scout Tafoya, rogerebert.com

'It's hard not to understand Li'l Quinquin as a potential apotheosis for European art cinema.'

Clayton Dillard, Slant Magazine