Even by the standards of French oddball filmmaker
Quentin Dupieux (Rubber; Wrong Cops),
Deerskin
boasts a bonkers premise. Jean Dujardin plays a man who travels to a
secluded corner of France to purchase a coveted deerskin jacket. Obsessed by
the garment, he embarks on a plot to become the only jacket-wearing person
in the world, leading him on a murderous rampage. To document his quest he
ropes in a budding filmmaker (Adéle Haenel).
Deerskin is in UK cinemas from July 16th.
Check out the new trailer and poster below.
The official synopsis reads:
Georges (Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin), is a man who has one ambition - to possess the finest jacket in the world at the expense of all others. With the relationship with his wife in tatters, Georges retreats to a remote town where he purchases the deerskin jacket of his dreams. Along with the stylish jacket he has just acquired, he also gets hold of an old video camera. This ignites a new interest as he moves from couture to auteur. Aided by aspiring editor Denise (César winner Adèle Haenel), he sets out to create his masterwork. However, his ever closer relationship with his deerskin jacket starts to take him down a darker path that he continues to document on his camera and which Denise continues to sew together into a film. Laugh out loud funny and gloriously unexpected, the odyssey on which Georges has embarked leaves him guilty of many things, not least an excess of killer style...
