Quentin Dupieux’s cinema is talked about in many ways – either as surrealistic comedies, or as gonzo films; he is the director of Rubber (2011), a film about a killer car tire that terrorizes the streets and busts people’s skulls open. Dupieux is also a musician (acting under the name of Mr. Oizo, the author of  Flat Beat, an electronic hit from the early 2000s). His idiosyncratic interests can also be seen in his filmography. His most recent work, Deerskin, which premiered last year in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at Cannes, is about a generic man (played by Jean Dujardin) who, having been recently left by his wife and kicked out of his home, spends all of his savings on a jacket made of deer leather. He’s so excited about it that he instantly enters a state of adoration; he checks himself into a small-town hotel and leaves his wedding ring as payment, waiting for a miracle to shine onto him and his jacket.

Georgiana Mușat

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Journalist and film critic, with a master's degree in film critics. Collaborates with Scena9, Acoperișul de Sticlă, FILM and FILM Menu magazines. For Films in Frame, she brings the monthly top of films and writes the monthly editorial Panorama, published on a Thursday. In her spare time, she retires in the woods where she pictures other possible lives and flying foxes.

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