I Lost My Body

Now that I'm looking back at the movies I watched in 2019, I realized how good this year was for movie buffs! We had fabulous movies like Jojo Rabbit, Joker, Parasite, 1917, Toy Story 4, etc. However, I wasn't that attracted to this animation. I watched it yesterday and honestly, I feel bad for not watching it earlier... I loved everything about this animation: The Screenplay, the Soundtrack (t...

I Lost My Body is a critically acclaimed animated film adapted from Happy Hand by Guillaume Laurant, earning numerous awards including an Oscar nomination and the Nespresso Grand Prize at Cannes. Although animated, it is not suitable for children due to its mature themes and graphic scenes, instead offering a deep, poetic exploration of loss and longing through the surreal journey of a severed han...

Normally I recoil at the thought of a film about a love triangle, but this one works a bit differently. In the best tradition of Hammer meets the "Addams Family", a dismembered hand manages to escape from a laboratory and set across the bustling and perilous city of Paris in the hope that it can be reunited with it's arm. Meantime, "Naoufel" was a pizza boy on his final warning - he tended to be a...