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3	''Deerskin'' (French: ''Le Daim'') is a 2019 dark comedy directed by Creator/QuentinDupieux.
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5	The plot concerns a man, Georges (Creator/JeanDujardin), whose wife has separated from him. He ventures out and buys an expensive but rather ridiculous deerskin jacket in an attempt to make himself more cool. When his wife refuses to reconcile with him and puts a freeze on their bank account, he's left living out of a hotel, conning people for money while claiming to be a film director. As he grows increasingly obsessed over his deerskin attire, he becomes convinced that his deerskin jacket should be the only jacket in the world. An aspiring film editor Denise (Adèle Haenel) joins him on his movie project, little realizing that the bizarre behavior he films is not fiction.
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7	!!This film provides examples of:
8	* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Georges grinds such a sharp edge into a ceiling fan blade that it can chop through skulls and slice through the roof of a car like butter.
9	* AllPartOfTheShow: Denise doesn't seem to realize that Georges' movies are real. Or does she?
10	* BlatantLies: Georges' lies about his production team in Siberia are comically implausible. Even though Denise questions him on the details, she goes along with them.
11	* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The weird staring kid returns in the final scene with his father]].
12	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: George sometimes answers questions in an absurdly literal manner. When a woman in a bar asks what he does, he responds that he's sitting in a bar drinking.
13	* CompanionCube: George develops a friendship with his deerskin jacket and talks to it. He supplies its responses back to him.
14	* PapaWolf: [[spoiler:The staring kid's father executes Georges with a rifle for throwing a rock at his son]].
15	* RetroUniverse: Some of the cars, cameras and screens look quite dated, though Georges' smartphone indicates that the film takes place at least fairly recently. Dupieux previously took this further in ''Film/KeepAnEyeOut''.
16	* RobbingTheDead: Georges takes a dead man's hat after discovering that it's 100% deerskin.
17	* RunningGag: Georges frequently refers to his "killer style" while admiring his deerskin attire. [[spoiler:This becomes a literal description once he starts murdering people for wearing jackets]].
18	* ShoutOut: To Albert Dupontel's ''Bernie'' (1996). George sharpens his fan blade against the road while driving.
19	* TakingUpTheMantle: A very literal example. [[spoiler: Denise takes the deerskin jacket when George dies]].
20	* WouldHurtAChild: George throws a rock at a child who was staring at him.

Context Film / Deerskin