Much of the dramatic tension of a movie that at times moves too slowly derives from a sense that the filmmaker is biting his tongue to keep from turning these people into biting satirical caricatures.
And there's Stanley Tucci and his terrifying false teeth, presenting a ghoulishly satirical grin while biting anew into the sickly flesh of deadly game show presentation.
Philippe Val, an idiosyncratic hero of the French left and the editor of the biting satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, says that Dieudonné "pushes us to transgress the very basis of our culture and politics — the knowledge that we have constructed on the ruins of Auschwitz.
These trends are solidly in the tradition of literary anonymity - from unsigned political tracts to biting satirical graffiti, we've seen it all before.
Although he enjoys the Smothers Brothers' sibling rivalry and parodies of what he derides as "the era's folk song mania," he dislikes their TV show, one of the very few satirical series with real bite ever to land on an American network.
