Deerskin

[Subtitled] [Opens May 1 as part of Greenwich Entertainment's Virtual Cinema Initiative; tickets available through streaming at the Parkway Theater or at Deerskinmovie.com.] A captivating, wacky, bizarre, well-acted, bleak, unpredictable, 77-minute dark comedy in which an older, eccentric Frenchman (Jean Dujardin), who is apparently estranged from his wife, goes off the deep end when he tries to flush his green corduroy jacket down a gas station toilet; becomes obsessed with a secondhand, fringed deerskin jacket for which he over pays many euros; begins gathering jackets he commandeers from other people under false pretense; starts videotaping his criminal, murderous escapades while pretending to be a filmmaker; and then convinces an inexperienced bar waitress (Adèle Haenel) to help bankroll his oddball film project and to act as his film editor without a script.
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