I lost my body

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Movie
German title I lost my body
Original title J'ai perdu mon corps
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2019
length 81 minutes
Rod
Director Jérémy Clapin
script Jérémy Clapin
Guillaume Laurant
production Marc du Pontavice
music Dan Levy
cut Benjamin Massoubre
synchronization

I lost my body is a 2019 French animation film directed by Jérémy Clapin .

action

The grown-up Naoufel is lying on the floor, not far from his severed hand. Young Naoufel wants to find out from his father how he can catch a fly. The father explains to him that he has to approach the fly from the side so that it does not see him. When Naoufel still can't get hold of the fly, the father says that he can't always win.

In a Paris laboratory, the severed hand of the adult Naoufel breaks off and goes in search of the rest of the body. Memories of the hand of her life with Naoufel show, among other things, the feeling of digging in the sand and carefully nudging the antennae of a snail. The path of the hand becomes adventurous, so she defends herself against a pigeon, which she tries to throw from the roof and which finally strangles the hand. The hand is thrown from a garbage can into a garbage truck, but is able to escape. In the metro, she fights rats, is later fished by a dog with a ball from a frozen stream and ends up on a roof via various other stations. With the help of an umbrella, she can fly to an abandoned factory floor.

In parallel with the adventures of the hand, the story of Naoufel is told. His parents give him a cassette recorder with a microphone and record everything, fascinated. While the family goes to a concert of their mother, who is a cellist, Naoufel holds the microphone in the airstream. Because Naoufel leans too far out of the window, his father pulls him back, ignoring the street. When the car collides with an animal, Naoufel's parents die. He comes to a foster family and earns his living as a pizza delivery boy. He only gets to know the young Gabrielle, who works as a librarian, over the intercom in a high-rise building. He follows her from her job to her uncle Gigi, a carpenter . To see her again, he convinces her uncle to take him on as an apprentice . He moves to the workshop and enjoys his training. In the library he speaks to Gabrielle and she shows him a book about the polar world and how she can only experience this world in books. On the roof of an old factory building, Naoufel begins building a wooden igloo for Gabrielle. She is surprised and delighted and both of them have a profound conversation on the roof about the fascination of breaking out of everyday life and countering the daily grind with something unforeseen. Naoufel has ordered pizza and tells Gabrielle that he's the pizza delivery boy she talked to over the intercom. However, she reacts disappointed and hurt because she believes he made a fool of her uncle, who is seriously ill. Later, at a party, Naoufel gets drunk and starts a fight. The next day he is unable to concentrate on the circular saw . When he tries to kill a fly, his watch gets caught in the circular saw and he loses his right hand.

After the accident, Naoufel retreats to his room above the workshop, where his hand finds him. Naoufel is asleep when his hand comes to him and crawls up to the stump of his arm. Naoufel, however, withdraws his arm. The next day Naoufel packs up and leaves. Gabrielle finds his recorder for him snow on the roof of the old factory floor where the wooden igloo is covered with snow. The hand has followed Gabrielle to the roof and watches as she plays the tape in the machine. The scene of the accident that Naoufel had recorded at the time has just been covered over. Gabrielle listens to Naoufel running up on the roof, but not plunging into the depths, but landing on the nearby crane and screaming cheers. The hand slowly crawls backwards from the roof.

production

Director Jérémy Clapin 2019 at the presentation of the film at the Festival d'Animation Annecy

I've Lost My Body is a loose adaptation of the novel Happy Hand by Guillaume Laurant. In contrast to the book, the hand does not appear as a narrator in the film. Individual scenes like the first meeting of Naoufel and Gabrielle over the intercom of a high-rise building only appear in the film.

Producer Marc du Pontavice had already acquired the film rights in 2011, but the plot based on a severed hand and the genre mix led to a lengthy production phase, with the implementation as an animated film being certain from the start. I've lost my body is Jérémy Clapin's debut feature film, who had previously appeared in several short animated films. He also wrote the screenplay with Guillaume Laurant and co-financed the film with producer du Pontavice as there were no other donors.

The film was animated with the free 3D graphics software Blender , whereby the Grease Pencil tool, which was first introduced in 2015, made 2D drawings on 3D elements possible; this shortened the working time on the film. The 2D animation was carried out by the Xilam studio in Lyon, while the 3D animations were carried out by the Gao Shan animation studio on Reunion Island . The first details of the film were presented at the Blender Conference in Amsterdam in autumn 2017.

The film premiered on May 17, 2019 as part of the Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes International Film Festival and was shown at the Festival d'Animation Annecy the following month . In Switzerland, the film was shown for the first time on September 27, 2019 at the Zurich Film Festival ; in Germany it had its premiere on October 2, 2019 at the Hamburg Film Festival . The film was released in France on November 6, 2019.

synchronization

The German synchronization was for dialogue script and the dialogue director of Jan. Fabian Krüger on behalf of the RRP Media UG, Berlin.

role Original speaker Voice actor
Naoufel Hakim Faris Volkmar Leif Gilbert
Gabrielle Victoire Du Bois Anne Düe
Gigi Patrick d'Assumçao Roman Kretschmer
Father Saji Hichem Mesbah Martin Sabel
Mother Louisa Myriam Loucif Marion Musiol
Raouf Bellamine Abdelmalek Dennis Sandmann

Awards (selection)

I've lost my body, won the Nespresso Grand Prix of the “Semaine de la critique” section in Cannes in 2019 and was nominated for the Golden Camera. At the Festival d'Animation Annecy , the film won the Cristal d'Annecy for the best feature film and the audience award. In 2019, the film was nominated for the European Film Awards in the category Best Animated Film and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award in the category Best Animated Film and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animation . Jérémy Clapin received a nomination for the Prix ​​Louis Delluc for the best first work in 2019 .

I Lost My Body was nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Animated Film in 2020 . It won three Annie Awards , including the Annie for Best Animated Independent Feature, and was nominated for three more. He received three nominations for the Prix ​​Lumières (Best Director, Best Film Music, Best Animated Film). The film won the 2020 César in the categories of Best Animated Film and Best Film Music ; he was also nominated for a César in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Secrets tournage - Happy Hand on allocine.fr
  2. ↑ Press Kit from I lost my body on medias.unifrance.org, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Press Kit from I lost my body on medias.unifrance.org, p. 12.
  4. ↑ Press Kit from I lost my body on medias.unifrance.org, p. 4.
  5. ↑ Press Kit from I lost my body on medias.unifrance.org, p. 6.
  6. ^ Radio France: "J'ai perdu mon corps" nommé aux Oscars: "On est quand même face à des blockbusters", se réjouit le producteur . francetvinfo.fr, 13 January 2020.
  7. ↑ Secrets tournage - Blender on allocine.fr
  8. ↑ Press Kit from I lost my body on medias.unifrance.org, pp. 11–12.
  9. ↑ Amid Amidi: First Look: "I Lost My Body", A Feature Made With Open Source Blender Software . cartoonbrew.com, October 11, 2017.
  10. ↑ I lost my body in the German dubbing file