Coincoin and The Extra Humans

Quinquin is now a grown-up and goes by the nickname CoinCoin. He hangs out on the Pas de Calais and attends meetings of the Nationalist Party with his childhood friend Fatso. His old love, Eve, has abandoned him for Corinne. When a strange cow-pat like substance is found near the town, the inhabitants suddenly start to behave very weirdly. Captain Van Der Weyden and his loyal assistant Carpentier investigate these alien attacks. The Extra-Human invasion has begun.

Acclaimed by critics and viewers alike, Bruno Dumont's P'tit Quinquin is back for a second season.

World Premiere Locarno Film Festival 2018

France/2018/208 min (4 x approx 52 min)/Cert TBC

EP 1 Black be Black

EP 2 The Extra-Humans

EP 3 Gunk, Gunk, Gunk!!!

EP 4 The Apocalypse

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Bruno Dumont (born 1958, Bailleul, France) studied philosophy before he started directing films. To date, he has directed seven feature films and now a television series, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His feature films are La vie de Jesus (1997), L'Humanite (1999), Twentynine Palms (2003), Flandres (2006), Hadewijch (2009), Hors Satan (2011) and Camille Claudel 1915 (2013). L'Humanite and Flandres were both awarded the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, while Hadewijch won the FIPRESCI prize. Dumont began working for television with the series P'tit Quinquin (2014), which aired on ARTE. The move also brought humour into Dumont's filmic world for the first time and a shift in genre, which he repeated in his next feature film Ma Loute (2016), a blend of comedy and drama shown in competition at Cannes in 2016. The next change of tone was even more extreme, as the filmmaker tackled the challenge of a rock musical with Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc (2017), based on a play by Charles Peguy. He presented the sequel Jeanne in the Un Certain Regard selection this year in Cannes.

Coincoin and the Extra Humans is the sequel to P'tit Quinquin and was presented during the 71st Locarno Festival in 2018, where he received a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Filmography

1997 La vie de Jesus (The Life of Jesus)

1999 L'humanite (Humanity)

2003 Twentynine Palms

2006 Flandres (Flanders)

2009 Hadewijch

2011 Hors Satan

2013 Camille Claudel 1915

2014 P'tit Quinquin(L'il Quinquin)

2016 Slack Bay(Ma Loute)

2017 Jeannette: L'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc (Jeanette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc)

2018 Coincoin and the Extra Humans (Coincoin et les Z'inhumains)

2019 Joan of Arc

2020 On a Half Clear Morning (yet to be premiered)

'A brilliant second season of Bruno Dumont's superb series revolving around Quinquin features aliens, refugees and our favourite madcap cops...Coincoin is even better than the series that preceded it.'

Kaleem Aftab, Cineuropa

'Bruno Dumont gets up to his comic tricks again. Offers all the exhilaration of a filmmaker of talent loving what he is doing.

You don't have to be familiar with P'tit Quinquin which took place in the same community a few years earlier in order to be drawn in here, but for those who did see the earlier film meeting up with the established characters once more is part of the pleasure.'
Mansel Stimpson, Film Review Daily

'Coincoin and the Extra-Humans mashes up genres, tones, and influences, unifying them into a cinematic universe that's intensely personal and full of its creator's observations and insights.

Dumont's radically loopy, politically confrontational, grandly geographical, infinitesimally detailed transfiguration of familiar police-investigation dramas, and to merely describe it in broad strokes is to give proof of Dumont's profuse imagination and symbolic ingenuity.'

Richard Brody, The New Yorker

'The film evokes a deep-rooted spirit of reactionary malaise, of people whose lives are hopelessly circumscribed by their own fears and prejudices.'

Keith Watson, Slant Magazine

'Coincoin's message of strange shared humanity and seeing ourselves in foreign bodies of all kinds, in learning empathy by force if necessary, unfolds at a deliberate pace.

Dumont's comedies are a gift we were never promised and now they're something we should never have to live without.'

Scout Tafoya, RogerEbert.com

'Dumont continues to work wonders with nonprofessional actors and forbidding landscapes, and this creates a fascinating frisson with the ridiculous comedy.'

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader

'CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans takes the tropes and character types from the first movie and accentuates their extremities.'

Josh Encinias, The Film Stage

'Look no further than CoinCoin and the Extra-Humans, which revels in the absurdity of our collective inertia. For 3+ hours it shows why glamorizing mankind's response to global chaos remains an utterly ridiculous endeavor.

Dumont weaponizes repetition and emotional listlessness to hilariously mirror what it feels like to be helpless in a world slowly going to hell in a hand basket...'

Glenn Heath Jr., Mubi Notebook

'Absolutely amazing and strange to return to this world 4 years later. Everyone has aged. All the kids went through puberty. All I can say is that Dumont is a genius. And I'm looking forward to the next installment.'

Sean Baker, Letterboxd

'Diffusely organized yet immersive in its ability to entertain, Coincoin and the Extra-Humans is a beguilingly strange new chapter from the prolific Bruno Dumont.'

Nicholas Bell, IONCINEMA.com

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