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Deerskin

Le Daim

2019

Quentin Dupieux

Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, Coralie Russier ...

6.2

1,923

Thriller. Comedy A man's obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime. In this black comedy of middle-aged masculinity gone awry, Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) is a recent divorcee who becomes obsessed with a vintage fringed deerskin jacket that begins to exert an uncanny hold on him. Set in a sleepy French alpine village, he falls into the guise of an independent filmmaker and ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"It’s like a cross between 'Barton Fink' and 'Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer' — the study of a desolate loner sunk into obsession, and the more we study him the more out there his obsession becomes"
		Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Slight but quite amusing (...) Dupieux and the production and costume designers have made a serious effort to ground things in a more recognizable reality than in most of the director’s previous outings."
		Allan Hunter Screendaily	"Aa ’winningly offbeat and unexpected’ dark comedy (...) Dupieux manages to sustain credibility and an air of unpredictability as he leads the viewer through a series of improbable developments."
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	" 78-minute stunt with one appealing hook: Jean Dujardin, hilarious and unhinged."
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"[It] flickers tantalizingly between awful and awesome (...) 'Deerskin' is slight and forcefully eccentric. As with Georges’s personality, audiences will be split"
		Joe Lipsett Bloody Disgusting	"It’s insane, and yet 'Deerskin' is so confidently directed and performed that the film completely works (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"Yes, it’s beyond ridiculous, but Dujardin and Haenel somehow keep things grounded, and — in a weird, albeit violent way — kind of sweet and sickly funny"
		Simon Abrams rogerebert.com	"[It] isn’t weird enough to be great (...) But this horror-comedy is the latest proof that Dupieux is one of a few modern filmmakers whose movies resemble nightmares (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"'Deerskin' manages the neat trick of both inhabiting and floating above Georges’ madness"
		John Nugent Empire	"This is a self-reflexive piece of work (...) The tone is confidently consistent throughout (...) 'Deerskin' is a deliciously ridiculous farce played largely straight (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Jean Dujardin is charming, sad, scary and hilarious here (...) Entirely bizarre, uncompromisingly silly and intensely French horror-comedy from film-maker Quentin Dupieux (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"It’s a plunge written, shot and edited by Quentin Dupieux who, in passing, also distills in the film a reflection on cinema (...) ultimately marking a film as mad as it is perfectly controlled."

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