Le Daim

Fortnight 2019, Feature film, 1h17
World premiere

Synopsis

Georges, 44 years old, and his jacket, 100% deerskin, have a plan.

Director

Quentin Dupieux

Quentin Dupieux is a self-taught filmmaker/musician born in 1974. He made short films as a teen and sold one of them to Canal+ when he was 19. Simultaneously, Quentin Dupieux started making electronic music under the pseudonym Mr. Oizo. He released his first album in 1996. In 1999, he directed a series of commercials with Flat Eric, a yellow puppet. He sold more than 3 million copies of Flat Beat, the music that he created for that ad campaign. In 2007, Quentin Dupieux wrote and directed his first feature-length film, Steak. Will follow Rubber, Wrong, Wrong Cops, Reality and Keep an Eye Out. He regularly releases electronic music albums. Deerskin is his seventh feature film.

Casting
Team
Production
Screen shots

Adèle Haenel
Albert Delpy
Coralie Russier
Jean Dujardin
Laurent Nicolas
Pierre Gommé

screenplay
Quentin Dupieux

photography
Quentin Dupieux

sound
Guillaume Le Braz, Alexis Place, Gadou Naudin, Cyril Holtz

production design
Joan Le Boru

editing
Quentin Dupieux

production
Atelier de production
41 rue Saint Augustin
75002 Paris – France
T : +33 1 88 32 08 66
contact@atelierdeproduction.com
www.atelierdeproduction.com

coproduction
Arte France Cinéma (France)
Nexus Factory (Belgique)
Umedia (Belgique)
Garidi Films (Suisse)

foreign sales
WTFilms
20 rue Bachaumont
75002 Paris – France
T : +33 1 42 61 09 83
sales@wtfilms.fr
www.wtfilms.fr

distribution
Diaphana Distribution
155 rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine
75011 Paris – France
T : +33 1 53 46 66 66
diaphana@diaphana.fr
www.diaphana.fr

publicist
France
Monica Donati
T : +33 1 43 07 75 22
monica.donati@mk2.com

Internationale
Ryan Werner
Cinetic Media
T : +1 212 204 79 51
ryan@cineticmedia.com
Jill Rosen
jill@jillrosencomms.com
T : +1 917 326 0145

Title in Original Version : Deerskin

Cannes projection

May 15
8h45
Théâtre Croisette

19h30
Théâtre Croisette

22h00
Théâtre Croisette

May 16
14h00
Cinéma Le Raimu

19h
Studio 13

May 17
19h
Cinéma Alexandre III

May 24
8h45
Théâtre Croisette

Press release

Quentin Dupieux signe son film le plus réussi, une fantaisie horrifique totalement cintrée /// Le Monde

Il est dément. En Georges, le psychopathe du film de Quentin Dupieux, Jean Dujardin déchire l’écran /// Libération

(…) a hilarious Dujardin performance and the filmmaker’s inspired fashion conceit yield an enjoyable diversion from a filmmaker with nothing to prove /// IndieWire

Comédie horrifique et réjouissante de Quentin Dupieux /// Marianne

Un film étonnant, porté par Jean Dujardin /// Les Inrocks

La nouvelle comédie horrifique de Quentin Dupieux /// Trois couleurs

LE DAIM va de surprise en surprise, de réplique lapidaire en dialogue corsé /// Cinema Teaser

De retour avec un film fou /// Konbini

Un conte d’une folie extraordinaire /// L’Humanité

son Daim fait sensation /// Maze

J’aime multiplier les expériences – Adèle Haenel /// 20 minutes

Avec #LeDaim, Quentin Dupieux filme l’ubuesque avec une rigueur exemplaire et un vrai sens du cinéma /// Mehdi Omaïs sur Twitter

Une descente aux enfers de la mégalomanie traitée avec l’humour décalé et absurde de Quentin Dupieux /// Télérama

The Bare Necessity

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