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Stéphane Jobert has 3 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2010s.
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A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life savings, and even turn him to crime.
Dir. Quentin Dupieux · With Jean Dujardin, Adèle Haenel, Albert Delpy
France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he meets the lady mayor of a small village that the road will go through. She intrigues and unsettles him, before revealing to him a world he never knew: feelings. How far will he go now to save his victims and save himself from his own lies?
Dir. Xavier Giannoli · With François Cluzet, Emmanuelle Devos, Gérard Depardieu
Secrets emerge and entire cases unravel inside a police interview room in Paris, where suspects and investigators face off in an intricate dance.
Dir. Jim Field Smith, George Kay · With Margot Bancilhon, Anne Azoulay, Mhamed Arezki
