Micha Bayard

This one is kind strange like the others, it's like a modern gathering around a rock'n'roll Christ in a graveyard full of old cars.

Paris, 1955. Guy, film critic of the Cahiers du Cinéma, often goes to see the films of Vittorio Cottafavi in a local cinema. One day he notices that Jeanne, film critic of "Positive ", the rival magazine, seems to be following him. He is intrigued. (imdb)

Pere Ubu, at the urging of wife, murders the king of Poland and assumes the throne, but is unprepared to deal with the resulting war. Based on the absurdist play by Alfred Jarry.

From the very beginning, film comedy focused on the world of work. From exploitation to unemployment, from adaptation to resistance, directors multiplied their points of view on survival in the modern world, especially from Chaplin on. With a humor superceding certain conventions and steering towards an eminently political dimension, Moullet follows three characters in order to build one of the blackest satires about the conflict arising from our everyday relation with work. (imdb)

This is at once very French and very anti-French. It is, more or less, the French post 1968 counter-culture making fun of (and hating) the old French values.