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A severed hand escapes from a refrigerator in a laboratory and begins a journey across the suburbs of Paris to reunite with its body, that of a young man named Naoufel. His story is told via flashbacks. As a boy in Morocco, Naoufel aspires to be a pianist and an astronaut and records his day-to-day life on a tape recorder.
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- The Astronaut by The Steet
- The Significance of The Fly
- The Ending: “Embracing The Uncertainties”
‘I Lost My Body’ follows two parallel narratives. In one of these, it follows the journey of a dismembered hand that travels through the unforgiving streets of Paris, to trace its rightful owner. Meanwhile, in the form of flashbacks of the hand, another story begins to unfold where a young boy named Naoufel struggles to find his life’s purpose, as ...
For the most part, ‘I Lost My Body’ unfolds its storyline from the perspective of a disjointed hand which makes it the protagonist of the film, in one way or the other. The hand, without having any comical human traits of its own, somehow becomes a character in itself. From the very beginning of the film, it feels lost in a harrowing world where it...
From the very first scene, a housefly seems to follow the main character all the time. Especially during the most defining moments of his life, the fly somehow seems to be around in one way or the other. Each of these expounding moments leads him to a future that is destined for him. From the time he ends up losing his parents in a car accident to ...
In the final moments of ‘I Lost My Body’, the hand does find its way back to Naoufel, but it still struggles to re-attach itself with its owner. Meanwhile, Naoufel gets rejected by Gabriel and is again forced to drift back to the toxic memories of his past which force to him believe that his life is not under his control. Halfway through the film, ...
I Lost My Body: Directed by Jérémy Clapin. With Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d'Assumçao, Alfonso Arfi. A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.
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- Animation, Drama, Fantasy
- Jérémy Clapin
- 2019-11-15
Oct 18, 2019 · With a pitch-perfect pace and a brisk 80-minute runtime, I Lost My Body is a painfully realistic and often macabre slice-of-life exploration of loss and a pursuit of feeling whole, as well...
Romance, mystery and adventure intertwine as a young man falls in love and a severed hand scours Paris for its owner in this mesmerizing animated film. Watch trailers & learn more.
Nov 30, 2019 · I Lost My Body is fundamentally weird and potentially off-putting. But it’s also visually and emotionally beautiful, one of 2019’s most ambitious, engaging films.
Nov 15, 2019 · A grim fairy tale that starts mere seconds after a young man in mid-’90s Paris has been violently separated from one of his hands, Jérémy Clapin ’s morbid yet profoundly moving debut feature — head...
