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I Lost My Body: Striking French Animated Drama With a Hand 🤚

J’ai perdu mon corps (I Lost My Body) is a 2019 French animated film. This was directed by Jérémy Clapin, who adapted the work from the novel Happy Hand by Guillaume Laurant, with French animation company Xilam Animation helming the project.

It won various awards in 2019 and even got an Oscar nomination, but rarely seems to get any mention amongst the best modern animated movies. Well, we’re here to shine a light on it and this thing was excellent.

The Personal Growth Within I Lost My Body

There’s a lot of complaining online from misery guts that films were better in “the good old days”. We’ve watched a big bunch of modern films so far in 2026 and the quality has been outstanding. It’s really insulting to the talent out there to dismiss so many of these great films.

I Lost My Body is a great example. This one passed us by in 2019, but it really stands out as an inventive and emotionally intensive fantasy drama. Do keep in mind, too, this is no film for kids. The themes are very adult.

Not least with the beginning, where a severed hands goes on a journey across Parisian suburbs.

Viewers find out the hand belongs to a young man called Naoufel (voiced by Dev Patel for the English sub, Hakim Faris for the French) and the rest of the story follows the present day interweaving with his past.

That and the journey of his hand across Paris.

Naoufel is from Morocco and his parents died in a car crash Naoufel feels responsible for. He’d aspired to be an astronaut, but has to live with his vacant uncle and now works as a pizza delivery driver.

A chance encounter with a customer called Gabrielle gives him a new sense of hope. But he starts obsessing over her, trying to win her romantic interests through increasingly desperate means.

It’s a short film, but one that consistently impresses. With flashes of dark humour, and sides towards a tragic past, I Lost My Body ultimately builds towards an uplifting finale.

One of Naoufel accepting a disability, overcoming a pointless infatuation, and moving on to a new phase of his life. Not a coming-of-age narrative, but one of important personal growth and developmental acceptance.

Add into the animation style, which is very striking, often beautiful across the concise 81 minute film. Xilam Animation handled that and full credit to them on some fine work.

With plenty of originality and an unnerving drive to fully explore its narrative themes, this was a big winner with us. Again, it’s genuinely life-affirming. Director Jérémy Clapin noted:

“[It’s] an urban, modern fairy tale about destiny and resilience. It tells us that to change things, we must surprise ourselves, dare to do something unusual, stray away from the straight and narrow.”

A fine mindset indeed and an impressive piece of work and we hope it finds cult classic status. Seven years after launch, it deserves it.

The Production of I Lost My Body

Netflix acquired the rights to the film after its premiere at Cannes Film Festival in 2019. It didn’t get a full cinematic launch as a result, which is a shame. But it’s there on Netflix should you want to watch it.

However, despite a limited cinematic release in France it still made $1.1 million.

I Lost My Body also had a long old production run, taking some seven years to complete. As with the Oscar winning and brilliant Flow (2024), the animation was completed in the free software Blender.

Dan Levy worked on the film’s soundtrack, which features an official preview video on YouTube. Have a listen! It’s got some melodic, ambient pieces in there.

Extremely French wine bar coming to S.F.’s most Italian neighborhood

A wine bar with a Parisian bent, clear views of Alcatraz…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #FrenchWine #Frenchwine #MediterraneanWine #BrandoJessie #ChezBrando #francais #france #French #Frenchfilms #frenchwine #ItalianRestaurant #J.J.Johnson #sanfrancisco #Wine #WINEBAR
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2326039/extremely-french-wine-bar-coming-to-s-f-s-most-italian-neighborhood/

I'm a big Camus fan - a new adaptation of The Stranger by Francois Ozon (in French, of course) will premiere at the Venice Film Festival. It stars Benjamin Voisin as Mersault, and it looks great. Psyched to see this one.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV3F2fkevCM

#Camus #FrenchFilm #film #movies #films #TheStranger #AlbertCamus #FrancoisOzon #2025Movies #2025Films #France #French #FrenchFilms #absurdist #absurdism #existentialist #existentialism #existentialists

European movie poster for SCHOOL FOR LOVE (1955)

NSFW

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Crime, comedy and The Count of Monte-Cristo: French flock to cinemas … to watch homegrown films

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/10/comedy-and-the-count-of-monte-cristo-french-flock-to-cinemas-to-watch-homegrown-films

sadly, 95% of those #FrenchFilms don't get released in UK cinemas ... #frenchCinema #France

The #Olympics is making us want to watch French films. Diva obvs, Subway, Les Flics, Betty Blue, Sans Toite Ni Loi, Haut Tension... What are we missing? #frenchfilms

This morning’s 4K Ultra HD movie is “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” (1972), a French film starring Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier, Stéphane Audran, & Jean-Pierre Cassel. Directed by Luis Buñuel. Released by StudioCanal.

A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.

#4KUHD #UltraHD #StudioCanel #FrenchFilms #FrenchCinema

“Le Quai des Brumes” (Port of Shadows, 1938) — my 3rd Jean Gabin film.

#FrenchFilms #JeanGabin

SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER (’60): In the battle of #FrenchNewWave titans, I am far more a Truffaut fan than Godard, finding the latter a bit too self-referential and “out there”. Here Truffaut serves up noir, French style, with a piano player (with a dark background, natch) inadvertently forced on the run with a gorgeous girl who offers redemption. Great mix of every genre you can think of- even comedy (howled at the “if I’m lying…” bit). Extremely creative. Beautiful photography too. #frenchfilms

BACK TO THE WALL (’58): Fairly obscure French #filmnoir, of most note for starring young Jeanne Moreau, who plays a cheating wife being slowly squeezed (along with her lover) by the knowing husband. A feast for the eyes for noir-heads like myself, terrifically photographed, conveying the atmosphere perfectly. Enjoyed the slow boil of the husband’s scheme, as well as plot twists on the way to the (expectedly) downbeat conclusion. Glad #KinoLorber got this one back in circulation. #frenchfilms

So, Saturday night was horror night, and “Titane” was... well, not quite what I expected. By turns horrific, absurd, challenging, bewildering and ultimately rather sweet. I'm still thinking about its themes and about Agathe Rousselle's extraordinary performance.
#HorrorFilms #BodyHorror #FrenchFilms

#Cine #Cinema #Movies #Films #Películas #Cinemastodon #MastoFilms #GasparNoé #Climax #FrenchFilms #CinémaFrançais #Dance #Dancestodon

🎬 Climax (Gaspar Noé, 2018) 🔥 🔊 🎶
https://video.liberta.vip/w/sHT44qvs178uFRENqoGKQQ?warningTitle=0&controlBar=0

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🎬 A pleno sol (René Clément, 1960)

Gente civilizada:
—A propósito: ¿has intentado matarme al salir del agua?
—Al salir del agua no, pero sí una o dos veces antes.
—¡Ah! Eso me interesa…
https://video.liberta.vip/w/b23deF3UqDtpVfkKrR7Dc7?warningTitle=0&controlBar=0

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Mis asociaciones de ideas / Connecting ideas

🎬 Film: Cléo de 5 à 7 (Cleo de 5 a 7, Agnès Varda, 1962)
🎸 Song: The Velvet Underground and Nico - I'll Be Your Mirror 🔊 🎶 🎧

https://video.liberta.vip/w/iXK3RBV1iR4HGbSAsnrzAS?warningTitle=0

#NowWatching #ManBitesDog #AlterNativityStories
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