Americans perhaps make a bit of a fuss over how good the food is in Paris, but Full Phil takes this notion to ridiculous extremes. Throughout, visiting tourist Madeleine (Kristen Stewart) stuffs her face with every kind of meat, vegetable and carb while her father Phil (Woody Harrelson) is the one whose stomach miraculously swells. Meanwhile, when not bickering with her dad, she watches an ultra-low-budget black-and-white creature feature on her portable DVD player about a swamp thing with a taste for human heads, a hotel employee (Charlotte Le Bon) by her side to protect her lest Phil gets violent.
It’s all pretty much business as usual for French multihyphenate and master of his own weird self-made genre, Quentin Dupieux, back with his latest — a lean, slightly mean slice of what-the-hell-was-that fun that could be likened to what you’d get if Troma made films scripted by Samuel Beckett.
Full Phil
The Bottom Line
Best enjoyed on an empty stomach.
