Review: 'Deerskin' is an entrancingly warped love story between a man and his jacket
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
May 01, 2020
3 minutes
You will never look at a suede coat, a ceiling fan or Jean Dujardin in quite the same way again after "Deerskin," the latest from that purveyor of cinematic absurdities known as Quentin Dupieux. Fleet, funny and steadily hair-raising, the movie spends 76 minutes tracking a screw-loose, middle-aged drifter, Georges (Dujardin), as he pursues a deep obsession with his most prized possession, a vintage deerskin jacket.
If that sounds completely ludicrous, it is. It's also weirdly, beautifully controlled - a comedy that progresses with such matter-of-fact deadpan illogic that you may not even notice its
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