The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013.Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Kyle Chandler, Rob Reiner, Jon Favreau, Jean Dujardin, and Jon Bernthal.SYNOPSIS: The Wolf of Wall Street arrives on 4K with a transfer supervised by director Martin Scorsese. Nothing new was added to the bonus features, but my understanding […]
55th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Deerskin (2019)
Deerskin. 2019Written and Directed by Quentin Dupieux Starring Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy, and Pierre GomméSYNOPSIS: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 out of Oscar winner […]
Movie Review – Deerskin (2019)
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 it is the […]
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 hereIn this black […]
Movie Review – Up For Love (2016)
Up For Love, 2016.Directed by Laurent Tirard. Starring Jean Dujardin, Virginie Efira, Cedric Kahn and Stephanie Papanian.SYNOPSIS:Successful lawyer Diane (Virginie Efira) is in the midst of breaking up with husband Bruno (Cedric Kahn) but it’s complicated by their being business partners. After an angry dinner together, she storms out of the restaurant but leaves her mobile […]
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 genre’s well-rounded formula, and […]
Movie Review – The Connection (2014)
The Connection (a.k.a. La French), 2014.Directed by Cédric Jimenez Starring Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette, Mélanie Doutey, Guillaume Gouix, Benoît Magimel, Bruno Todeschini, Moussa Maaskri and Féodor Atkine.SYNOPSIS:A French police magistrate spends years trying to take down one of the country’s most powerful drug rings.If La French succeeds at anything it is in helping […]
