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- 2020
- Greenwich Entertainment
- 1 h 17 m
- 2020
- Greenwich Entertainment
- 1 h 17 m
Summary A recent divorcee (Jean Dujardin) 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 befriends a trusting bartender and aspiring editor (Adèle Haenel) who becomes his collaborator on a movie tha...
Directed By: Quentin Dupieux
Written By: Quentin Dupieux
- 2020
- Greenwich Entertainment
- 1 h 17 m
- 2020
- Greenwich Entertainment
- 1 h 17 m
Deerskin
68
6.6
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Summary A recent divorcee (Jean Dujardin) 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 befriends a trusting bartender and aspiring editor (Adèle Haenel) who becomes his collaborator on a movie tha...
Directed By: Quentin Dupieux
Written By: Quentin Dupieux
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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17% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
68
83% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
17% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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A hilarious and twisted festival amuse-bouche with tremendous cult appeal.
The richness and strangeness of the comedy is somehow simply down to Dujardin’s frowningly serious and haughty face.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
6.6
67% Positive
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17% Mixed
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17% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
6.6
67% Positive
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
17% Mixed
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17% Negative
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In a role that was made for Jean Dujardin, he acts like he has been doing this for a long time. By 'this' I mean executing an eccentric project that is about to take over his life and muddle his relationship with the world. And by 'the world' I mean the sorry village that his Georges character travels to after buying a vintage jacket made of 100% deerskin which also marks his obsession with it, something that both induces laughter in its audience and also highlights the crazy, primal nature of obsessive compulsion characterized by depression, loneliness, and unconditional enmity against the humankind. I have no words to describe the virulent turn Le daim (Deerskin) takes as Georges laughingly has his way by conspiring with himself to take forward his obsession with his deerskin jacket, which I should add is 'killer style' in his own words. Whether it is the inflated price that he pays for the second-hand jacket or the newfound skill of videography or mistaking a film editor with a creditor, Le daim has been written in a way that is guaranteed to make you laugh every five minutes. The outlandish plot, accentuated by terrific performances by Dujardin and Adele Haenel (who acts with her face and that's enough) and also by the peculiar style of referral writing (where the aftermath of an event in a scene is shown in the following one or the one after that) by director-writer Quentin Dupieux makes this comedy crime drama a blast experience. I can't recommend it more and I am definitely going to be watching more of Dupieux's work. Bravo! TN.
(Watched and reviewed at its India premiere at the 21st MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.)
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This is a somewhat mysterious film - not really what I'd call a horror film, although it is unsettling at times and there are the ocassional moment that may make you want to look away from the screen but its by no means a constant jumpscare type film throughout. Its got quite a plodding feel to it for the most part, indeed the music played in the background is what you might hear on an old fashioned PI type show. It has a claustrophobic feel to it as well. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it - its bizarre but not unwatchable, with an intriguing main character. I'd recommend this if it sounds of interest, for the 'curiosity factor' alone although perhaps not to the extremely squeamish and I suppose the plot isn't 100% original but otherwise its an intriguing enough watch, yes.
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Although ostensibly set in the present day, this odd, frightening and entrancing little movie seems stuck in a moment out of time.
This tale of a leather coat that wants to be God may not be the director’s finest work, but it’s certainly more than a fringe benefit.
Following the stylish mountain man as he reverts to his base, feral nature, the movie itself feels sparse, almost minimalistic. It’s stripped down to its barest essentials, just a crazed individual under the influence of the illusion of masculine power.
Deerskin isn’t weird enough to be great, mostly because Dupieux (“Rubber, “Reality”) is a little too precious when it comes to pacing, characterizations, humor, etc.
A tedious mix of Reno 9-1-1 awkward humor and the queasy provocation in Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job!, it felt like Dupieux was trying too hard, and Deerskin feels like the injection of the leather obsession just never quite meshes with the rest of the story.
This is an absurd movie from a French director Quentin Dupieux.I sometimes like absurd movies if they are funny, and they, again, sometimes are. This one was not, unfortunately. A middle-aged man spent a lot of money on a deerskin jacket and became obsessed with it. He started talking to the jacket, and the jacket talked back. At first the movie was intriguing but then it became quite dark. That grim absurdity did not appeal to me.
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(Mauro Lanari)
The absurdity and nonsense that cease to be denounced (Ferreri, Van Sant) to be simply exposed, reduplicated, mirrored are useful only to madmen as the director and his protagonist. "Pleasant, engaging, fun": where, when, why? And if cinema is reduced like this, the pandemic frees us from this acuteness of pseudartistic dementia.
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Production Company
Atelier de Production,
Arte France Cinéma,
Nexus Factory,
Umedia,
Garidi Films,
uFund,
WTFilms,
Cinémage 13,
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC),
Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine,
ARTE,
Canal+,
Orange Cinéma Séries
Release Date May 1, 2020
Duration 1 h 17 m
Tagline Killer. Style.
Awards
Globes de Cristal Awards, France
• 3 Nominations
Splat! FilmFest
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 2 Nominations
