Le daim

One of the biggest hits of the Fifteen Directors section at the last IFF in Cannes. The heroine of the black comedy Quentin Dupieux is ... a jacket with fringes. She becomes the fetish of a certain Georges, a lost guy who, after buying a suede clothing, begins to dream of the filmmaker's fame. Having spent the last money, the man wanders around the French province, getting closer to the edge of insanity with each passing day. It catches people, talks with fringes, grabs the camera, wanders the hills. Into the net of his fantasies, thoughts and lies he pulls the local barmaid, who at night hobbyizes re-assembles old productions. It's a movie about ordinary madness - admitted the director. - But above all, also about freedom: what we do with it. Mixing comedy with horror cinema and drama, Deerskin never loses contact with reality - strangeness and absurdity are like amazing growths on raw matter. It is also an actor's tour de force by Jean Dujardin. The actor known from the Oscar-winning Artist as talking with his jacket Georges mocks his own star status.