This trippy film somehow rather beautiful and hopeful as we watch a severed hand crawl its way back to its owner. The owner, Naoufel, is a young boy who wants to change his destiny. Orphaned at young age, he struggles to figure out his life. It changes when he meets a young woman through an intercom after he was late delivering her pizza.
The reason for the name of the title is troubling to understand, but I think the hand is the protagonist in this story. The movie is chopped up, no pun intended, with scenes of the hand crawling back mixed with memories of its past. You think it's about Naoufel's memories as he remembers his deceased parents and how he recorded everything in sight. But I think it's more about his hand remembering the events. It even sits down at one point to listen to a blind man play the piano because it remembers playing the piano for Naoufel.
The physical message is obvious, but there is something more metaphorical. We watch Naoufel try to win the heart of the girl he met through the intercom by showing up at the library where she worked, working for her ailing uncle, and building an igloo on the roof of an empty high rise. When she calls him a fraud. Having lost her, it seems like a large portion of his body was lost. He's the hand that lost his body. But after hearing an old recording he made, that dictates his parents' death in a car accident, he seems to regain a grasp on life. He still hasn't figured out what he wanted to do, but for now, he knows it will be okay. The last scene we see is Gabrielle, the girl he likes, follow Naoufel's tracks to the wooden igloo and to the rooftop ledge where we fear he has jumped. He did...to the crane across the street. He asked Gabrielle if she ever taken a leap of faith without thinking. It was something he believed destiny plays a part in. Now, he's taken the physical leap. I think it represents that he now has a more positive outlook on life. It's unknown whether if he and Gabrielle would ever get together, but we know for sure that they will be okay.
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Released On: November 6, 2019
Rating: TV-MA
Stars: Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d'Assumçao, Alphonse Arfi, Hichem Mesbath, Myriam Loucif, Bellemine Abdelmalek, Nicole Favart, Céline Ronte, (English Dubbing: Dev Patel, Alia Shawkat, George Wendt, Tucker Chandler, Anouar H. Smaine, Sarah Lynn Dawson, Jonny Mars, Barbara Goodson, Tara Sands)
Director: Jérémy Clapin
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Certified Fresh
IMDb Score: 7.6/10
Awards
Academy Awards
(Click here to view more awards for "I Lost My Body".)
The reason for the name of the title is troubling to understand, but I think the hand is the protagonist in this story. The movie is chopped up, no pun intended, with scenes of the hand crawling back mixed with memories of its past. You think it's about Naoufel's memories as he remembers his deceased parents and how he recorded everything in sight. But I think it's more about his hand remembering the events. It even sits down at one point to listen to a blind man play the piano because it remembers playing the piano for Naoufel.
The physical message is obvious, but there is something more metaphorical. We watch Naoufel try to win the heart of the girl he met through the intercom by showing up at the library where she worked, working for her ailing uncle, and building an igloo on the roof of an empty high rise. When she calls him a fraud. Having lost her, it seems like a large portion of his body was lost. He's the hand that lost his body. But after hearing an old recording he made, that dictates his parents' death in a car accident, he seems to regain a grasp on life. He still hasn't figured out what he wanted to do, but for now, he knows it will be okay. The last scene we see is Gabrielle, the girl he likes, follow Naoufel's tracks to the wooden igloo and to the rooftop ledge where we fear he has jumped. He did...to the crane across the street. He asked Gabrielle if she ever taken a leap of faith without thinking. It was something he believed destiny plays a part in. Now, he's taken the physical leap. I think it represents that he now has a more positive outlook on life. It's unknown whether if he and Gabrielle would ever get together, but we know for sure that they will be okay.
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I hope you liked this. Be sure to subscribe and leave a comment about what you thought or if you want to recommend a movie for me to review. Thank you for reading. I'll return next week with another movie. See you then.
Released On: November 6, 2019
Rating: TV-MA
Stars: Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d'Assumçao, Alphonse Arfi, Hichem Mesbath, Myriam Loucif, Bellemine Abdelmalek, Nicole Favart, Céline Ronte, (English Dubbing: Dev Patel, Alia Shawkat, George Wendt, Tucker Chandler, Anouar H. Smaine, Sarah Lynn Dawson, Jonny Mars, Barbara Goodson, Tara Sands)
Director: Jérémy Clapin
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 96% Certified Fresh
IMDb Score: 7.6/10
Awards
Academy Awards
- Best Animated Feature - Nominated
(Click here to view more awards for "I Lost My Body".)
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