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In a highly competitive situation, FilmNation has acquired I’d Like to Speak to Your Manager, an absurdist action-thriller spec from Gabe Delahaye, for feature development.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 June 2026
Yet, visitors were arguably offered a different, no less interesting, if absurdist, spectacle of the fallout from the theft of a single, ripe banana.
—Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 1 June 2026
The resulting scene is spectacular, with the apartment’s inclined and polished floor giving rise to physical comedy of absurdist pathos in the vein of Jerry Lewis, and Corvette’s frantic struggle for traction revealing the earnest undertones of her fraught visit.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
If Nikolai Gogol and Raymond Chandler had collaborated, this might have been the result—absurdist Slavic magical realism grafted onto an entertaining whodunit.
—The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 4 June 2026
Yet, visitors were arguably offered a different, no less interesting, if absurdist, spectacle of the fallout from the theft of a single, ripe banana.
—Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 1 June 2026
The resulting scene is spectacular, with the apartment’s inclined and polished floor giving rise to physical comedy of absurdist pathos in the vein of Jerry Lewis, and Corvette’s frantic struggle for traction revealing the earnest undertones of her fraught visit.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
If Nikolai Gogol and Raymond Chandler had collaborated, this might have been the result—absurdist Slavic magical realism grafted onto an entertaining whodunit.
—The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
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“Absurdist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absurdist. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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