Plenty of (intended) non sequiturs and arrivals at nothing, with some good French sauce. Sure, it is surreal, but don't think clever-clever bakerlite phone with a lobster handset, more amusing sketches which taken singly are absorbing vignettes.
There is plenty of cinema that is terrified of being understood too easily and resorts to weirdness as a proxy for intellectualising, but this does not do that. It leads you somewhere articulately and clearly, it's just that that place is in the middle of nowhere.
If you want to claim it's a masterpiece or a comment on our time, do so if you must, but it's a fun watch without any of that.
There is plenty of cinema that is terrified of being understood too easily and resorts to weirdness as a proxy for intellectualising, but this does not do that. It leads you somewhere articulately and clearly, it's just that that place is in the middle of nowhere.
If you want to claim it's a masterpiece or a comment on our time, do so if you must, but it's a fun watch without any of that.