{"id":13328,"date":"2019-12-26T20:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T01:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13328"},"modified":"2019-12-26T15:37:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T20:37:01","slug":"i-lost-my-body-2019-jeremy-clapin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13328","title":{"rendered":"I Lost My Body (2019, J\u00e9r\u00e9my Clapin)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They Might Be Giants &#8220;I Left My Body&#8221; still has the edge, but this was good too.  Told out of order, we see two-handed Naoufel stalking a girl he likes, getting a job with her carpenter uncle and building her a wooden igloo (Neil: &#8220;isn&#8217;t a wooden igloo just a hut?&#8221;).  Meanwhile his hand, severed through his incompetence with power saws, can apparently see eyelessly, kill pigeons, and have little hand-flashbacks on its quest to get back to Naoufel.  When it arrives, he&#8217;s listening to tapes of his dead parents and thinking about jumping off buildings, and the hand wanders off again.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Kermode:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The primary tone is gentle and melancholic &#8211; an almost existential evocation of memory, and the longing to be made whole &#8230; Just as the themes of <em>I Lost My Body<\/em> dextrously juggle light and shade, so the film seamlessly blends 2D and 3D-animation techniques with elements of rotoscoped live-action to create what Clapin calls \u201can animated world halfway between the tangible and the imaginary\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We saw Clapin&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1806\">Skhizein<\/a><\/em> in an animated shorts program a decade ago &#8211; can&#8217;t remember it well, but it&#8217;s also about a guy who lives in two different places at once.  The writer worked on my favorite Jean-Pierre Jeunet movies.  Played (won!) Cannes Critics&#8217; Week with a bunch of fascinating-looking features that I could spend all week watching, if I could find any of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They Might Be Giants &#8220;I Left My Body&#8221; still has the edge, but this was good too. Told out of order, we see two-handed Naoufel stalking a girl he likes, getting a job with her carpenter uncle and building her a wooden igloo (Neil: &#8220;isn&#8217;t a wooden igloo just a hut?&#8221;). Meanwhile his hand, severed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,96,34,2591,1829],"class_list":["post-13328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-animation","tag-france","tag-jeremy-clapin","tag-missing-limb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13356,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13328\/revisions\/13356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}