Film festivals are often about austere dramas in which people wander around with sad, serious expressions on their faces not saying very much. But they’re also about the other side of cinema – the completely nutty side. From that world comes the French animation I Lost My Body which follows – and stay with me here – a disembodied hand on the hunt for its owner. It’s an offbeat hook for the ages that proves to be the driving force for a film that absolutely delivers on its weirdo premise, but also isn’t what you expect it to be at all.
Director and co-writer Jérémy Clapin sets his stall out early on, segueing between a black and white flashback in which a father and son discuss how to catch a fly and a present day sequence in which a dismembered hand leaps from a fridge and frees itself from a bag, while being watched by an eyeball it knocked out of the fridge as it jumped. Clapin weaves present day and flashback, following the hand’s owner Naoufel (Hakim Faris) as he forms a romance with Gabrielle (Victoire Du Bois) after chatting with her through the intercom of her building while delivering a pizza…
Full article – https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2019/10/2019-bfi-london-film-festival-review-i-lost-my-body/
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