Deerskin (Le Daim), 2019. Directed by Quentin Dupieux. Starring Jean Dujardin and Adele Haenel. SYNOPSIS: In this bizarre comedy-horror, a middle-aged man spends all his savings on a deerskin jacket and heads out to live in a rural mountain village. His unsettling obsession with his new purchase leads him to take drastic action to ensure […]
Movie Review – Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2019. Written and directed by Céline Sciamma. Starring Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino, Christel Baras, Armande Boulanger, Guy Delamarche and Clément Bouyssou. SYNOPSIS: On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait […]
Movie Review – Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2019. Directed by Céline Sciamma. Starring Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel and Luàna Bajrami. SYNOPSIS: A painter hired to produce a portrait of a wealthy lady before she is married falls in love with her subject. There’s a scene early on in Céline Sciamma’s desperately romantic, sensory lesbian love story […]
Jean Dujardin has a killer jacket in trailer for Deerskin
Ahead of its release next month, a trailer has arrived online for the dark comedy Deerskin which is directed by Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) and stars Jean Dujardin, a divorcee whose unhealthy obsession with his new deerskin jacket leads him down a dark path; watch it here… SEE ALSO: Read our review of Deerskin here In […]
Movie Review – Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
Portrait of a Lady on Fire. 2019 Written and Directed by Céline Sciamma Starring Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, and Valeria Golino SYNOPSIS: On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman. Every scene, spoken word […]
55th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Deerskin (2019)
Deerskin. 2019 Written and Directed by Quentin Dupieux Starring Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, and Pierre Gommé SYNOPSIS: A man’s obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime. An exercise in unabashed bizarreness, Deerskin sees French director Quentin Dupieux getting a committed and straight performance […]
2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Deerskin
Deerskin, 2019 . Directed by Quentin Dupieux. Starring Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, Pierre Gommé and Marie Bunel. SYNOPSIS: A man’s obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime. Sometimes a film comes along which is simply impossible to pigeon-hole. It refuses to nestle into […]
Movie Review – BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017)
BPM (Beats Per Minute), 2017. Directed by Robin Campillo. Starring Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel, Antoine Reinartz, Félix Maritaud, Aloise Sauvage, Catherine Vinatier, Saadia Bentaieb, and Coralie Russier. SYNOPSIS: 120 BPM. The average heart rate. The protagonists of 120 battements par minute are passionate about fighting the indifference that exists towards AIDS. There […]