Deerskin (2019)
(Le daim)
Country: FR/BEL/SW
Technical: col 77m
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy
Synopsis:
A guy breaks up with his wife, implodes en route to nowhere and winds up in a small town in the Pyrenees where he answers a For Sale ad. for a deerskin jacket, fulfilling some unarticulated lifelong dream. Before long he has ceded all autonomy to the jacket and devoted his life to realizing its dream of being the only jacket in the world, while posing as a film-maker and getting finance from the village barmaid.
Review:
Indeed a film that would probably not have got finance were it not for Dujardin's presence, who in this Tavernier-style black comedy plays a variation on his character in an episode of Dix pour cent. Denise, the barmaid, who is inexplicably taken in by Georges's amateurish doodling with camcorder - but then so much is unexplained here - perhaps puts her finger on the theme of the movie, namely everyone's need for a shell to hide behind. Shot in bleached-out colour, as if to evoke the 1970s, this is one of those quintessentially European film experiments which, in pursuing an idea to its limits, nevertheless use it as a peg on which to hang their character's despair, ennui or loss of self.
(Le daim)
Country: FR/BEL/SW
Technical: col 77m
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy
Synopsis:
A guy breaks up with his wife, implodes en route to nowhere and winds up in a small town in the Pyrenees where he answers a For Sale ad. for a deerskin jacket, fulfilling some unarticulated lifelong dream. Before long he has ceded all autonomy to the jacket and devoted his life to realizing its dream of being the only jacket in the world, while posing as a film-maker and getting finance from the village barmaid.
Review:
Indeed a film that would probably not have got finance were it not for Dujardin's presence, who in this Tavernier-style black comedy plays a variation on his character in an episode of Dix pour cent. Denise, the barmaid, who is inexplicably taken in by Georges's amateurish doodling with camcorder - but then so much is unexplained here - perhaps puts her finger on the theme of the movie, namely everyone's need for a shell to hide behind. Shot in bleached-out colour, as if to evoke the 1970s, this is one of those quintessentially European film experiments which, in pursuing an idea to its limits, nevertheless use it as a peg on which to hang their character's despair, ennui or loss of self.
(Le daim)
Country: FR/BEL/SW
Technical: col 77m
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy
Synopsis:
A guy breaks up with his wife, implodes en route to nowhere and winds up in a small town in the Pyrenees where he answers a For Sale ad. for a deerskin jacket, fulfilling some unarticulated lifelong dream. Before long he has ceded all autonomy to the jacket and devoted his life to realizing its dream of being the only jacket in the world, while posing as a film-maker and getting finance from the village barmaid.
Review:
Indeed a film that would probably not have got finance were it not for Dujardin's presence, who in this Tavernier-style black comedy plays a variation on his character in an episode of Dix pour cent. Denise, the barmaid, who is inexplicably taken in by Georges's amateurish doodling with camcorder - but then so much is unexplained here - perhaps puts her finger on the theme of the movie, namely everyone's need for a shell to hide behind. Shot in bleached-out colour, as if to evoke the 1970s, this is one of those quintessentially European film experiments which, in pursuing an idea to its limits, nevertheless use it as a peg on which to hang their character's despair, ennui or loss of self.