Director:
Quentin Dupieux
Writer:
Quentin Dupieux
Starring:
Adèle Haenel, Jean Dujardin, Albert Delpy, Coralie Russier
In this black comedy of middle-aged masculinity gone awry, Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin (The Artist) is a recent divorcée who becomes obsessed with a vintage fringed deerskin jacket that begins to exert an uncanny hold on him. Set in a sleepy French alpine village, Le daim sees the protagonist falling into the guise of an independent filmmaker and befriending a trusting bartender and aspiring editor (Adèle Haenel, Portrait of a Lady on Fire), who becomes his collaborator on a movie that will document a surprising new goal he sets himself.
Plot summary from IMDb: A man's obsession with his designer deerskin jacket causes him to blow his life savings and turn to crime.
Awards: 3 wins & 9 nominations.
Runtime: 77 min
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