{"id":22377,"date":"2019-07-17T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=22377"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:36:06","slug":"le-daim-un-mauvais-ocni-objet-cinematographique-non-identifie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cinema\/films\/le-daim-un-mauvais-ocni-objet-cinematographique-non-identifie\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abLe Daim\u00bb: a bad, unidentified cinematic object"},"content":{"rendered":"

A real exercise in style doesn't guarantee real cinema. It doesn't even make a real film. The proof is in this Suede <\/em>which is nauseatingly close to a video rather than a film. Yet Quentin Dupieux is neither a director devoid of talent nor a witless artist. Not to mention his lead actor, the immense Jean Dujardin, one of the few French actors today to achieve international recognition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

An absurdity that makes no sense<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But it's no use: when\ncreative exercise takes the place of cinematic art,\na screenplay, a story, all that's left to do is observe the damage.\nThe debacle of a film that ventures down the road of the absurd without succeeding in\nto make sense of its absurdity. It's strange to want to make sense of something that's supposed\nsupposed to be meaningless, isn't it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read also | <\/strong>I feel good<\/a><\/strong><\/em> - really, Jean Dujardin?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, paradoxical. But it has to be. Because if you don't, you can't make a film. Faced with the absurd, the only response is silence. So when Albert Camus writes The Stranger<\/em>, He has to break the rule by putting words to the absurdity of Meursault's existence. Quentin Dupieux, on the other hand, simply strings together a series of images around a semblance of a plot. Georges (Jean Dujardin) buys himself a 100% suede jacket, with which he talks, with which he has a dream: to be the only man to wear a jacket. To achieve this, he kills anyone wearing a jacket, filming himself in the act and making a film in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A film without impact <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I will be criticized for my severity OCNI<\/em> - unidentified cinematic object - saying that a screenplay doesn't need lengthy developments to make an impact. But we have to admit that Le Daim<\/em> had, at least on me, no impact! I'm sorry, but this film provides no amusement, no reflection, no aesthetic pleasure, no feeling. I dare to call it laziness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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