After the impressive musical film Annette, Leo Carax returns with C’est pas moi. A 42-minute medium-length film originally intended for the Musée Georges Pompidou, this more personal project answers the question, both existential and dizzying: “Where are you, Leo Butter?”
C’est pas moi , released in our cinemas this week, has been well received by the French press as it averages 3.7 out of 5 (on AlloCiné as of Friday June 14 and for 18 reviews), ahead of the thriller with Kristen Stewart Love . Lies Bleeding and the prison documentary Tehachapi.
What is it about?
For an exhibition that ultimately did not take place, the Pompidou Museum asked the filmmaker to answer the question: Where are you, Leo Carax? He tries to answer, full of questions. On him, on his world. I do not know. But if I had known, I would have answered that…
What does the press think?
According to Le Monde:
“The filmmaker does his introspection in a montage film, where he exercises his sensory imagination at large.” (Jacques Mandelbaum) 5/5
According to Cahiers du Cinéma:
“It’s Not Me documents the dizziness of a filmmaker who plays with images that lose their meaning, are exhausted. We only see the other side, the production against the background of darkness. Where is he, Leo Carax? He cries and laughs in the big. Nowhere that is completely dark.” (Yal Sadat) 4/5
According to L’Obs:
“The Transgressive and Heartbreaking Essay of Godard’s Spiritual Successor.” (Nicholas Schaller) 4/5
According to La Croix:
“With this 41-minute medium-length film, Leos Carax pays homage to one of his masters, Jean-Luc Godard, while engaging in an introspective essay in the form of a collage of images spanning his career and his inspirations.” (Celine Rudden) 4/5
According to Les Fiches du Cinéma:
“A portrait of the artist as Captain Nemo, brilliant, adventurous and asocial, as well as a visit to his mental nautilus, C’est pas moi is – in Godardian fashion – a concentrate of Carax, funny, inventive, inflated, disturbing, and in itself constantly stimulating.” (Nicolas markade) 4/5
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According to Liberation:
“Hoverned by the ghost of his idol, Jean-Luc Godard, the filmmaker’s medium-length film is laced with melancholic imagery, familiar faces and clips from moving home movies.” (Laura Thuillier) 4/5
According to the Prime Minister:
“The filmmaker is upset that the images, like our eyes, no longer blink. His film blinks well. Poetic and generous. And with incredibly dense and clear editing, vertigo sets in. I’m not sure it is.” (Thomas Baura) 4/5
According to South West:
“Leos Carax looks at his works without celebration. He prefers lightness, allusion. For example, the doll from his feature film Anette dances on David Bowie’s modern love, music from the iconic scene from Mauvais. He talks deeply about cinema. He tells us about the power of images, the gaze needs rest! ” (Julien Rousset) 4/5
According to Les Inrockuptibles:
“In a film inhabited by ghosts, crime is one of the driving forces. The crime of the century. The crime of certain people. From this post-Godardian rook, history, images and ‘the child-doll reappears.'” (Jean-Marc Lalanne) 3/5
According to Le Figaro:
“40 minutes that combines excerpts from his own films, an intimate story and a big story (…), questionable words and pretentious sentences. It’s not me? Carax doesn’t even take responsibility.” (ES) 1/5
Source: Allocine
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