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<\/p>\n“It was a nice tracking shot, but we’re no closer to our dream.”<\/p>\n
Wouldn’t you know it… I was proud of myself for being nearly caught-up with the blog before True\/False, then a global pandemic came along and set me back by another month. Anyway, lucky I took some notes on this one – it was very good, and also Dupieux’s most convincingly movie-looking movie yet. No Mr. Oizo music, for some reason.<\/p>\n
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Jean “The Artist<\/a><\/em>” Dujardin drives out and pays too much for a deerskin jacket, the soundtrack playing thriller tension music. Dude’s got money problems, estranged-wife problems, cellphone problems. He steals a book on filmmaking to impress waitress Ad\u00e8le Haenel (star of The Unknown Girl<\/a><\/em>), then hires her as his editor (he hasn’t read the filmmaking book and doesn’t know what editing is) and keeps asking her for money. Since she is investing in the film, she starts considering herself a producer and bossing Jean around.<\/p>\n Jean is a terrible person from the very start, and that’s before he starts delusionally talking to himself-as-the-jacket, then hitting the town on a jacket-snatching spree and eventually murdering all jacket-wearing citizens with a sharpened fan blade. Good ending, Jean’s actions catching up with him, Ad\u00e8le inheriting the jacket.<\/p>\n Opened the Cannes Directors Fortnight, playing with a bunch of movies that never opened here, plus The Lighthouse<\/a><\/em>, First Love<\/a><\/em>, and the Luca Guadagnino short I just heard about last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “It was a nice tracking shot, but we’re no closer to our dream.” Wouldn’t you know it… I was proud of myself for being nearly caught-up with the blog before True\/False, then a global pandemic came along and set me back by another month. Anyway, lucky I took some notes on this one – it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,2357,91,1206,1319],"class_list":["post-13468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-adele-haenel","tag-filmmaking","tag-quentin-dupieux","tag-serial-killer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13492,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13468\/revisions\/13492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"\/journal\/image20\/deerskin1.jpg\")
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