It’s a proper shame we’re not allowed physical contact at the moment, because Quentin Dupieux‘s “Mandibles,” among its many other silly pleasures, offers up a modified fist-bump-style handshake that could easily have swept the Venice Film Festival campus as the greeting du jour any other year. It involves both participants forming their hand into bull’s horns and then briefly interlocking their outstretched fists while saying “Toro” (because of the bull thing) preceded or followed by a description of what you’re “Toro”-ing about. So it’s “Breakfast Toro!”, “Toro emotion!”, “Toro getting-away-from-the-girl-who-thought-I-was-someone-else!” or, in a pinch when there’s no one else around, “Self-Toro!” You just have to hope this benighted pandemic is over before you run into Dupieux himself, because the temptation to “Fun movie Toro!” or “Toro good job!” him, after “Mandibles,” would likely be too strong to resist.

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