Alex Rudolph's Best of 2023
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
I loved these (and so many more) films this year. Hot damn. Thank god for art.
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
I loved these (and so many more) films this year. Hot damn. Thank god for art.
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
Smoking Causing Coughing is the latest bit of whimsy by writer/director Quentin Dupieux. His films, Rubber, Wrong, Keep an Eye Out, Deerskin, and Mandibles, among them, are delightfully absurdist and deadpan.
by Ryan Silberstein, Gary M. Kramer, and A. Freedman
Today officially kicks off the 31st Philadelphia Film Festival! We at MovieJawn couldn’t be more excited to once again attend our home town fest.
by Rosalie Kicks, Editor in Chief & Old Sport
Whenever I watch one of filmmaker Quentin Dupieux’s films, I am reminded that any type of film is possible.
Written and directed by Quentin Dupieux
Starring Jean Dujardin and Adèle Haenel
Languages: French with subtitles
Running time: 1 hour and 17 minutes
Unrated, but it gets a bit vulgar and violent at times
by Audrey Callerstrom
A missing dog, a groan, a tire. Quentin Dupieux, a French electronic musician turned filmmaker, has made a niche for himself by creating surrealist comedies where an object or an animal is often the focus. His third film, Rubber, was about a sentient car tire named Robert who turns homicidal after learning it (he?) is telekinetic. In Deerskin, the object is a jacket, which Georges (Jean Dujardin, The Artist) acquires from an old man. Georges has been figuratively castrated – his wife has kicked him out and frozen their bank account. How does he get his life back? The answer – he stuffs his stupid, pathetic green corduroy jacket into a gas station toilet and spends all his cash (about $8,500 USD) on a 100% deerskin jacket. It’s not an unattractive jacket- for an animal hide that’s several years old, it’s in good condition, with fringe across the chest. But is it as jaw-dropping at first sight as Georges thinks it is? Not really. It feels a little out of place in modern-day France. But he believes it transforms him, that it gives him what he repeatedly and unironically refers to as “killer style.”
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