{"id":17238,"date":"2025-02-18T20:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17238"},"modified":"2025-02-17T13:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:48:12","slug":"its-not-me-and-other-leos-carax-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17238","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not Me and other Leos Carax shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>It&#8217;s Not Me<\/em> (2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Real Godardian (complimentary)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Sans Titre<\/em> (1997)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Possibly the genesis of the new film, a rare Cannes film made of short clips (magma, classic cinema, war, home movies, the in-progress <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7990\">Pola X<\/a><\/em>) with voiceover, Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker.  At least one clip of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7001\">The Crowd<\/a><\/em> appeared in both films.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Strangulation Blues<\/em> (1980)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mostly nighttime scenes, invisible under the low-res video murk.  Collette&#8217;s occasional guy Paul comes home and everything he says is a cine-reference, then after fearing he might have strangled her in his sleep (he didn&#8217;t) Paul drives off again.  I think it was mainly voiceover, but as I mentioned, I couldn&#8217;t see much.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>My Last Minute<\/em> (2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gag video, where he types onto his computer that he&#8217;s quitting smoking, puts out the last cigarette then immediately shoots himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\nand a couple 2002 music videos he did for Carla Bruni &#8211; first a single take of her singing and playing acoustic on a couch while a guy carrying a candle stalks the next apartment over.  The next one seems like it will be a single take of her walking through a cobwebby tunnel, until she stops during the guitar solo to dance with an old man who was walking the other way.  Bruni is the sister of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi &#8211; these songs are from her smash hit debut album released six years before she married the president of France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Not Me (2024) Real Godardian (complimentary) &#8211; Sans Titre (1997) Possibly the genesis of the new film, a rare Cannes film made of short clips (magma, classic cinema, war, home movies, the in-progress Pola X) with voiceover, Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker. At least one clip of The Crowd appeared in both films. &#8211; Strangulation [&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":[855,534,21],"class_list":["post-17238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-leos-carax","tag-pop-music","tag-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238","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=17238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17281,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238\/revisions\/17281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}