{"id":6325,"date":"2024-10-19T23:19:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T03:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2024-10-19T23:19:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T03:19:48","slug":"i-lost-my-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/10\/19\/i-lost-my-body\/","title":{"rendered":"I Lost My Body"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I Lost My Body<\/strong> (2019)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Netflix\/Drama-Fantasy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 81 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No MPAA rating (language, violence, bloody images, an obscene gesture, drinking)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jeremy Clapin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Jeremy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Dan Levy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: January 10, 2020 (Philadelphia, PA)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d\u2019Assumcao (French)\/Dev Patel, Alia Shawkat, George Wendt (English).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Originally spoken in French\/Dubbed in English<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0The premise sounds like a scenario from an old grade-Z horror movie. A severed hand escapes from a laboratory and goes looking for its owner. There is a not-so-subtle difference though. In a horror movie, the hand would go on a killing spree. In the French animated film I Lost My Body<\/strong>, its sole purpose is locating the body to which it was once attached until an unfortunate workshop accident involving a table saw. I know it sounds macabre, but it\u2019s actually life-affirming with its message about pushing past tragedy in order to experience life. I\u2019ve never seen anything quite like it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The hand belongs to Naoufel (Patel, Slumdog Millionaire), a young French man still dealing with the childhood tragedy that left him in the custody of an uncaring uncle and his a**hole cousin. He delivers pizzas by bicycle and isn\u2019t very good at it. One night, he tries to deliver a pizza to a young woman, Gabrielle (Shawkat, Arrested Development), in an apartment building, but can\u2019t get past the security door. They end up having a nice conversation via the intercom. The next day, Naoufel tracks down Gabrielle, but is afraid to speak with her so he follows her to her uncle\u2019s place and pretends to be there about an apprentice job. Gigi (Wendt, Cheers), a terminally ill carpenter, reluctantly gives Naoufel a job after learning he\u2019s an orphan. In his new position, he hopes to win over Gabrielle. Naturally, he doesn\u2019t tell her who he is.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Naoufel\u2019s story is told in flashback form as his hand makes its way across Paris. The notion of a hand experiencing flashbacks is weird, but I\u2019m willing to accept it because the point of I Lost My Body<\/strong> is its journey across Paris, one fraught with dangers like pigeons, rats in the subway, traffic, frozen lakes and a protective seeing-eye dog. When Clapin focuses on this aspect of the story, it\u2019s very good. At times, it feels like a waking dream. Some of the images are incredibly beautiful like pictures in a children\u2019s book borrowed from the library (coincidentally, Gabrielle happens to work at a library). But make no mistake, I Lost My Body<\/strong> is NOT for children. It contains profanity, bloody images and an offensive gesture. I just thought I should make that clear.<\/p>\n

\u00a0My issue with I Lost My Body<\/strong> is the love story at its center. Whatever way you look at it, Naoufel is basically a stalker. I know he\u2019s shy, awkward and socially inept, but it\u2019s still a little creepy how he goes about finding and following Gabrielle thereby rendering everything that follows creepy as well. In not being straight with her from the start, a dark cloud hangs over their budding relationship. You dread what will likely happen when the truth finally comes out. I did, however, find Naoufel\u2019s backstory interesting. As a child, he wanted to be a concert pianist and an astronaut. He had an old tape recorder that he recorded his everyday life on. He was filled with wonder and questions about life. That all changed after the tragedy. Losing his hand could very well be the best thing that could have happened to him.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The animation in I Lost My Body<\/strong> is first-rate. It\u2019s the traditional hand-drawn kind you don\u2019t see anymore in this day and age of Pixar. It suits the material perfectly. It\u2019s a well-made movie all around. Based on the book Happy Hand by co-screenwriter Laurant, it\u2019s one of those movies that just stay with you. It has its flaws, but they don\u2019t impede one\u2019s enjoyment of the film. It\u2019s definitely original. I love how it turns the macabre into something beautiful. I don\u2019t think Tim Burton or Roald Dahl could have done any better. It\u2019s one to keep an eye out for.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I Lost My Body (2019)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Netflix\/Drama-Fantasy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 81 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No MPAA rating (language, violence, bloody images, an obscene gesture, drinking)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jeremy Clapin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Jeremy Clapin and Guillaume Laurant\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Dan Levy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: January 10, 2020 (Philadelphia, PA)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d\u2019Assumcao (French)\/Dev Patel, Alia Shawkat, George Wendt (English).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Originally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animation","category-dramas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/I-Lost-My-Body-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6488,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions\/6488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}