'The Deer') is a 2019 French black comedy film written and directed by Quentin Dupieux.

Georges, 44, buys a vintage fringed deerskin motorcycle jacket for €7,500 from an older man who lives in the countryside.

He meets a local bartender, a young woman named Denise, and says he is a filmmaker in town on a shoot.

Georges does not explicitly mention the jacket in this conversation and aside from viewer knowledge, everything he said could have been mistaken to mean the digital camcorder.

In the conversation, the jacket first only praises the camera work, only switching to encouraging murder after Georges says he thinks it wants him to do so.

Shortly after, on the idea of the jacket, Georges breaks a blade off his hotel room ceiling fan, sharpens it into a weapon using his car.

Denise, excited at the new footage, offers to produce the film and use part of her conveniently timed inheritance to finish it.

After buying him a pair of deerskin gloves, she films him preening in his full outfit on a roadside hill.

From the other side of the hill, the mute boy's father suddenly shoots Georges in the head with a hunting rifle.

In March 2018, it was announced Jean Dujardin had joined the cast of the film, with Quentin Dupieux directing from a screenplay he wrote.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Led by a daring performance from Jean Dujardin, Deerskin finds writer-director Quentin Dupieux working in a more accessible -- yet still distinctive -- vein.

"[17] On Metacritic, the film holds a rating of 65 out of 100, based on 18 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".