Quentin Dupieux’s Deerskin can essentially be summarized as Divorced Guy Energy: The Movie. A ribbing of masculinity that alternates between bone-dry and morbid humor to great effect, it may come across as an easily discernible film ideologically. Yet its placement in the Special Presentations section of the Toronto Film Festival rather than the more apt Midnight Madness programme perhaps speaks to it as a truly confusing object on at least the basis of overall comedic effect.
We meet Georges in the middle of what we can assume is a kind of mid-life crisis. Flushing his coat town the toilet, he soon purchases a replacement; a deerskin jacket. It may be an out-of-fashion item he picked up from an old man, but it’ll soon become the axis of life. While the aging white man and all its tokens may be on the way out in the western world, there...
We meet Georges in the middle of what we can assume is a kind of mid-life crisis. Flushing his coat town the toilet, he soon purchases a replacement; a deerskin jacket. It may be an out-of-fashion item he picked up from an old man, but it’ll soon become the axis of life. While the aging white man and all its tokens may be on the way out in the western world, there...
- 9/16/2019
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
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