DEERSKIN (2019)

 

Written, Directed, Edited  and Cinematography By: Quentin Dupieux

Cast: Jean Dujardin, Adele Haenel, Albert Delpy, Coralie Russier, Marie Bunel

A man's obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime.

Another tale of a possessed object of sorts 

The film could easily be seen as analogue to trying to make a film or in following your dream that seems impossible above all else but you do it anyway. Especially when you try to do it all alone and the crazy situations and deals you find yourself having to manage 

Only here though there is filmmaking involved it’s about the destruction of every other jacket in the world and the means he goes through on the way to this impossible task. 

While his only confident other than talking to his jacket is hiring a local bartender to edit his films and also since by her to help fund his expenditure. 

Though once he goes extreme in his quest it goes overboard but truly by that point it has no more  place to go 

As even his weapon fo choice is oversized and ridiculously absurd though it does lend itself to showing how a serial killer might think and in his own mind regulate his actions in her make sense to himself 

Maybe i just don’t understand french 

When it comes to the The films of Quentin Dupieux

I love his style and loved his first film runner and I guess I keep coming back to his films so that there will be another unorthodox one like that but I have also noticed that was his most mainstream and genre film. 

His films that have coen after that have stayed absurdist and have elements the to have enjoyed the closest to come to enjoyable since his first has been WRONG. As the other films do far I have found elements of the fun and entertaining but as a whole hasn’t enjoyed the films. A usually there is funny material done awkwardly 

Here the lead character is so loathsome in his obsession that is also absurd but half the fun of the fil. Is watching the lengths he will go to achieve his obsession that makes him the singular comedic character while all around are mroe in reality. So it becomes funny to a pony watching his schemes as they get deeper and more outrageous. Though even for a film so short it starts to feel monotonous. Luckily something happens usually to doing them up a bit.

Though there is also that his soundtracks are eclectic and electrifying and the best parts of his films. 

The jacket can be seen as his souvenirs/evidence of his kills as well as the reason. 

Though also when on This quest for a dream to meet someone who believes in your vision. So that you are. No longer alone. Usually, you attract more people to achieve and believe in the dream but here it becomes so gonzo all it becomes is a team trying to make a great movie that they both believe In.

There is a comeuppance in the end that results in a sequel of sorts or continuation of story, that will not die as easily. 

It has a good premise but feels like it falls short maybe because it is small scale. 

Grade: C