The Party Film Sales has closed further deals on Filippo Meneghetti’s romance “Two of Us,” which represents France in the international feature film race at the Oscars and is part of 15 shortlisted films.
Headlined by Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa, the Golden Globe-nominated feature debut follows Nina and Madeleine, two pensioners who have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades and see their bond put to the test when they are suddenly unable to move in together.
“Two of Us” was picked up for Switzerland (First Hand), Portugal (Midas), Korea (Green Narae), Taiwan (Filmware) and Japon (Mimosa).
The film was acquired by Magnolia for North America following its world premiere at Toronto in the Discovery section. “Two of Us” is nominated for four Cesar Awards, including best actress nods for both Chevallier and Sukowa, who previously won France’s Lumieres Award.
The Party Film Sales has already...
Headlined by Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa, the Golden Globe-nominated feature debut follows Nina and Madeleine, two pensioners who have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades and see their bond put to the test when they are suddenly unable to move in together.
“Two of Us” was picked up for Switzerland (First Hand), Portugal (Midas), Korea (Green Narae), Taiwan (Filmware) and Japon (Mimosa).
The film was acquired by Magnolia for North America following its world premiere at Toronto in the Discovery section. “Two of Us” is nominated for four Cesar Awards, including best actress nods for both Chevallier and Sukowa, who previously won France’s Lumieres Award.
The Party Film Sales has already...
- 3/1/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The Party Films Sales, the sales outfit behind the Golden-Globe nominated drama “Two of Us,” has acquired a trio of feature debuts from promising filmmakers, “Too Close to the Sun,” “The Sea Ahead,” and the animated film “My Neighbor’s Neighbours.”
All three films are set to be delivered later this year and are expected to world premiere in the festival circuit. The Party Films Sales will introduce all three projects at the virtual European Film Market.
“Too Close to the Sun” is directed by Brieuc Carnaille, a screenwriter-turned-filmmaker who is also a rock singer for the band Duel.
The film follows Clément Roussier (“Churchmen”) as Basile, a 30-something man who has just come out of the hospital and moved in with this youngest sister and closest confidant, Sarah. Suffering from a psychiatric disorder, Basil tries his best to re-establish a sense of normality in both his work and his love life.
All three films are set to be delivered later this year and are expected to world premiere in the festival circuit. The Party Films Sales will introduce all three projects at the virtual European Film Market.
“Too Close to the Sun” is directed by Brieuc Carnaille, a screenwriter-turned-filmmaker who is also a rock singer for the band Duel.
The film follows Clément Roussier (“Churchmen”) as Basile, a 30-something man who has just come out of the hospital and moved in with this youngest sister and closest confidant, Sarah. Suffering from a psychiatric disorder, Basil tries his best to re-establish a sense of normality in both his work and his love life.
- 2/23/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Review by Stephen Tronicek.
I Lost My Body, now nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, is a good example of just how far ingenuity can get you. It’s a creative, mind-boggling affair, full of expressionistic animation, yet falls short of its intended heights. Watching it feels profound, beyond that feels muddled.
I Lost My Body follows two stories: First the story of Naoufel (Hakim Faris/Dev Patel), a young man attempting to find peace and love in the face of his tragic life and second, the story of how a dismembered hand is attempting to find its body. There’s plenty of thematic material to be mined out of how a piece of person is both created and at what point it’s time to let it go…I Lost My Body just never quite gets into that exploration.
Instead, it opts to use these plots to dance around these themes.
I Lost My Body, now nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, is a good example of just how far ingenuity can get you. It’s a creative, mind-boggling affair, full of expressionistic animation, yet falls short of its intended heights. Watching it feels profound, beyond that feels muddled.
I Lost My Body follows two stories: First the story of Naoufel (Hakim Faris/Dev Patel), a young man attempting to find peace and love in the face of his tragic life and second, the story of how a dismembered hand is attempting to find its body. There’s plenty of thematic material to be mined out of how a piece of person is both created and at what point it’s time to let it go…I Lost My Body just never quite gets into that exploration.
Instead, it opts to use these plots to dance around these themes.
- 1/24/2020
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
by Tim
I Lost My Body, the first animated film to win the top prize at the Cannes International Critics's Week, is nothing if not distinctive. The "I" of the title is a sapient severed hand, which spends the length of the feature skittering around on its fingers, looking for the human to whom it used to be attached; this is a journey that is by turns bittersweet, sentimental, and horrifying. Director Jérémy Clapin, making his feature debut (he was also responsible for the celebrated 2008 short Skhizein), spent years sheperding this project into existence, and it has the unmistakable feeling of a passion project, one whose odd shifts in tone and moody emotional appeals are wonderfully earnest. While it is probably not the best animated feature of 2019, it's surely the most uncompromised and confident.
The film, adapted by Clapin and Guillaume Laurant from Laurant's novel Happy Hand, divides itself into two strands.
I Lost My Body, the first animated film to win the top prize at the Cannes International Critics's Week, is nothing if not distinctive. The "I" of the title is a sapient severed hand, which spends the length of the feature skittering around on its fingers, looking for the human to whom it used to be attached; this is a journey that is by turns bittersweet, sentimental, and horrifying. Director Jérémy Clapin, making his feature debut (he was also responsible for the celebrated 2008 short Skhizein), spent years sheperding this project into existence, and it has the unmistakable feeling of a passion project, one whose odd shifts in tone and moody emotional appeals are wonderfully earnest. While it is probably not the best animated feature of 2019, it's surely the most uncompromised and confident.
The film, adapted by Clapin and Guillaume Laurant from Laurant's novel Happy Hand, divides itself into two strands.
- 12/7/2019
- by Tim Brayton
- FilmExperience
A grim fairy tale that starts mere seconds after a young man in mid-’90s Paris has been violently separated from one of his hands, Jérémy Clapin’s morbid yet profoundly moving debut feature — — might be described as a story about someone trying to make themselves whole again. But that wouldn’t quite prepare you for the beguiling strangeness of what this Cannes prize-winner has in store. After all, there’s a reason why Clapin’s film is called “I Lost My Body,” and not “I Lost My Hand”: It’s largely told from the hand’s point-of-view.
We first meet Naoufel as he lies on the floor of his workshop. A curious fly buzzes in to investigate, its jeweled red eyes reflecting the blood that continues to spill out of Naoufel’s severed wrist. That’s when Clapin first embarrasses our expectations: Rather than focus on the horror of what’s just happened,...
We first meet Naoufel as he lies on the floor of his workshop. A curious fly buzzes in to investigate, its jeweled red eyes reflecting the blood that continues to spill out of Naoufel’s severed wrist. That’s when Clapin first embarrasses our expectations: Rather than focus on the horror of what’s just happened,...
- 11/15/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
It takes a little while to meet the main character of French animator Jérémy Clapin’s extraordinary, dreamlike I Lost My Body; first, we get to know our protagonist’s previous owner. That would be Naoufel (voiced by Hakim Faris — or Dev Patel if you opt for the dubbed alternative, though trust us when we say that you’ll want the original-recipe version), a young Franco-Arabic man in Paris. Soon, via flashbacks, we’ll watch him go from a happy, sound-obsessed child to a sullen twentysomething scarred by tragedy; he...
- 11/12/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Sneak Peek the award winning animated feature "I Lost My Body", directed by Jérémy Clapin, streaming on Netflix November 15, 2019:
"...'Naoufel', a young man in love with 'Gabrielle', is unaware that in another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab (?!) determined to find its body again..."
Voice cast includes Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois and Patrick d'Assumçao.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "I Lost My Body"...
"...'Naoufel', a young man in love with 'Gabrielle', is unaware that in another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab (?!) determined to find its body again..."
Voice cast includes Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois and Patrick d'Assumçao.
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "I Lost My Body"...
- 11/8/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
In May, a French animated film about a hand debuted at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Jérémy Clapin and co-written by Amélie screenwriter Guillaume Laurant, it became the first animated feature to win the Nespresso Grand Prize in International Critics Week. Since then, it was recognised at Annecy Animated Film Festival and more recently, this year’s London Film Festival.
I Lost My Body (original title: J’ai Perdu Mon Corps) follows a hand that ‘wakes up’ completely detached from its owner Naofel (Hakim Faris). As it ventures across the city to find its owner, it reminisces key moments of Naofel’s life and his tentative romance with librarian Gabrielle (Victoire Du Bois).
If you think that I Lost My Body is more like Thing in The Addams Family, think again. Rather than take a whimsical approach to complement its atypical protagonist, Laurant creates a narrative that...
I Lost My Body (original title: J’ai Perdu Mon Corps) follows a hand that ‘wakes up’ completely detached from its owner Naofel (Hakim Faris). As it ventures across the city to find its owner, it reminisces key moments of Naofel’s life and his tentative romance with librarian Gabrielle (Victoire Du Bois).
If you think that I Lost My Body is more like Thing in The Addams Family, think again. Rather than take a whimsical approach to complement its atypical protagonist, Laurant creates a narrative that...
- 11/5/2019
- by Katie Smith-Wong
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Dev Patel, Alia Shawkat and George Wendt have recorded the English-language dub of I Lost My Body, the French animated film that won the top prize at Cannes Critics’ Week this year.
Netflix swooped on the project’s global rights, excluding China, Benelux, Turkey, and France, following its Cannes bow. The film will have an awards-qualifying theatrical run in cinemas beginning November 15 in the U.S. and November 22 in the UK, before arriving on the platform November 29. It will also screen at the BFI London Film Festival on October 4.
Jérémy Clapin directed I Lost My Body, which follows a severed hand that escapes its unhappy fate in a Parisian laboratory and sets out to reconnect with its body. Patel is voicing pizza boy Naoufel, the owner of the hand, and Shawkat is voicing his love interest Gabrielle.
Andrew Bujalski oversaw the English dub under supervision from Clapin. The roles were...
Netflix swooped on the project’s global rights, excluding China, Benelux, Turkey, and France, following its Cannes bow. The film will have an awards-qualifying theatrical run in cinemas beginning November 15 in the U.S. and November 22 in the UK, before arriving on the platform November 29. It will also screen at the BFI London Film Festival on October 4.
Jérémy Clapin directed I Lost My Body, which follows a severed hand that escapes its unhappy fate in a Parisian laboratory and sets out to reconnect with its body. Patel is voicing pizza boy Naoufel, the owner of the hand, and Shawkat is voicing his love interest Gabrielle.
Andrew Bujalski oversaw the English dub under supervision from Clapin. The roles were...
- 9/30/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
"Sensational." Netflix has unveiled a full-length, official Us trailer for the outstanding French animated film I Lost My Body, also known as J'ai perdu mon corps. That French title translates directly to I Lost My Body, though it has also gone under the simpler title of just Grab. A cut-off hand escapes from a dissection lab with one goal: to get back to its body. As it scrambles through the pitfalls of Paris, it remembers its life with the man it was once attached to... until they met Gabrielle. The film had trouble getting financing, and it took over two years to develop and create, eventually produced at the animation studio Xilam. I saw this in Cannes and totally flipped for it, I love everything about it. My review is quoted in the trailer as well - it definitely is "one of the most imaginative, ambitious films of the year.
- 9/30/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Netflix scooped up global rights to Cannes Critics’ Week Award winner “I Lost My Body,” from Xilam Animation, after its premiere at the festival. Now, the streaming giant has tapped Dev Patel, Alia Shawkat, and George Wendt to lead the English-language cast of French director Jérémy Clapin’s animated feature debut, in which young love and childhood memories intertwine as a severed hand crosses Paris in search of its owner.
Additionally, filmmaker Andrew Bujalski has been named the Creative Lead of the English dub under the supervision of director Clapin. Patel, Shawkat, and Wendt will take on the voice roles from the original French voiceover cast led by Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, and Patrick d’Assumçao.
The film’s official synopsis reads: “In a Parisian laboratory, a severed hand escapes its unhappy fate and sets out to reconnect with its body in this Cannes Critics’ Week selection. During a hair-raising escapade across the city,...
Additionally, filmmaker Andrew Bujalski has been named the Creative Lead of the English dub under the supervision of director Clapin. Patel, Shawkat, and Wendt will take on the voice roles from the original French voiceover cast led by Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, and Patrick d’Assumçao.
The film’s official synopsis reads: “In a Parisian laboratory, a severed hand escapes its unhappy fate and sets out to reconnect with its body in this Cannes Critics’ Week selection. During a hair-raising escapade across the city,...
- 9/30/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
At the 2014 Cartoon Movie co-production forum in Lyon, France, I sat in on a pitch session for the strangest animated feature imaginable. This particular film, an artsy — and, fittingly, hand-drawn — indie titled “J’ai perdu mon corps” (or “I Lost My Body”), would be told from the point of view of a severed hand, separated under ambiguous circumstances, and the epic quest to reunite with its owner. I left Cartoon Movie intrigued but also feeling reasonably certain that this defiantly unconventional project would never see the light of day.
Flash forward five years, and “I Lost My Body” not only exists but screened to great acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was acquired by Netflix and won the top prize in Critics’ Week. In its finished form, director Jérémy Clapin’s peculiar undertaking is even stranger than it sounded to me half a decade earlier, and yet, there’s...
Flash forward five years, and “I Lost My Body” not only exists but screened to great acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was acquired by Netflix and won the top prize in Critics’ Week. In its finished form, director Jérémy Clapin’s peculiar undertaking is even stranger than it sounded to me half a decade earlier, and yet, there’s...
- 6/14/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix acquired the worldwide rights to two films that played at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Mati Diop’s “Atlantics,” which played in competition, and Jérémy Clapin’s animated film “I Lost My Body,” which won the top prize from the Cannes Critics’ Week sidebar of the festival, the streamer announced Saturday.
For “Atlantics,” Netflix acquired worldwide rights excluding China, Benelux, Switzerland, Russia and France, but it has subscription video on demand (SVoD) rights for 36 months following its theatrical release in France, Benelux and Switzerland. For “I Lost My Body, Netflix acquired worldwide excluding China, Benelux, Turkey and France, but also has SVoD rights for 36 months following its theatrical in France, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap.
Diop’s “Atlantics” played in competition and, on Saturday, was awarded the Grand Prix prize from the jury led by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Diop made her feature directorial debut on the film...
For “Atlantics,” Netflix acquired worldwide rights excluding China, Benelux, Switzerland, Russia and France, but it has subscription video on demand (SVoD) rights for 36 months following its theatrical release in France, Benelux and Switzerland. For “I Lost My Body, Netflix acquired worldwide excluding China, Benelux, Turkey and France, but also has SVoD rights for 36 months following its theatrical in France, an individual with knowledge told TheWrap.
Diop’s “Atlantics” played in competition and, on Saturday, was awarded the Grand Prix prize from the jury led by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Diop made her feature directorial debut on the film...
- 5/25/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Netflix has scooped up the global rights to Cannes Grand Prix Winner Atlantics from female director Mati Diop and the Cannes Critics’ Week Award Winner I Lost My Body from Xilam Animation. That pic reps director Jérémy Clapin’s Animated Feature Debut.
For Atlantics, the deal doesn’t include China, Benelux, Switzerland, Russia, France, while I Lost My Body excludes China, Benelux, Turkey, France. Atlantics was sold by Fionnuala Jamison at mk2 films. I Lost My Body was sold by Carole Baraton at Charades
Atlantics reps Diop’s feature directorial debut and takes place in Dakar along the Atlantic Coast. Seventeen-year-old Ada is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hopes of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread.
For Atlantics, the deal doesn’t include China, Benelux, Switzerland, Russia, France, while I Lost My Body excludes China, Benelux, Turkey, France. Atlantics was sold by Fionnuala Jamison at mk2 films. I Lost My Body was sold by Carole Baraton at Charades
Atlantics reps Diop’s feature directorial debut and takes place in Dakar along the Atlantic Coast. Seventeen-year-old Ada is in love with Souleiman, a young construction worker. But she has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co-workers leave the country by sea, in hopes of a better future. Several days later, a fire ruins Ada’s wedding and a mysterious fever starts to spread.
- 5/25/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Both deals cover the world excluding France and several other territories.
Netflix made its presence felt on closing night in Cannes, swooping on most of the world on both Mati Diop’s Cannes Grand Prix winner Atlantics and Jérémy Clapin’s Critics’ Week winner I Lost My Body.
The streaming titan made a noise with the late pick-ups, despite its deliberate absence from Competition with its original films due to the strictures of French media chronology laws.
Both deals were for the world excluding France, unsurprisingly, as well as China and Benelux. The Atlantics deal also excluded Switzerland and Russia.
Netflix made its presence felt on closing night in Cannes, swooping on most of the world on both Mati Diop’s Cannes Grand Prix winner Atlantics and Jérémy Clapin’s Critics’ Week winner I Lost My Body.
The streaming titan made a noise with the late pick-ups, despite its deliberate absence from Competition with its original films due to the strictures of French media chronology laws.
Both deals were for the world excluding France, unsurprisingly, as well as China and Benelux. The Atlantics deal also excluded Switzerland and Russia.
- 5/25/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
A hand-drawn hand stars in French director Jérémy Clapin’s engrossingly lyrical debut, “I Lost My Body,” a life-affirming work of graphic poetry that stands as the sole animated selection at Cannes’ Critics’ Week, where it world-premiered on Friday. Inventively adapted from Guillaume Laurant’s 2006 novel, “Happy Hand,” this bona fide treasure is sure to leave its melancholic fingerprints all over the viewer’s soul.
The film’s title refers to what its protagonist, a severed right hand, would note as its current predicament. Separated from the body of Naoufel (Hakim Faris), an orphaned young man who feels adrift, the sentient extremity escapes the lab where it has been kept since a grim accident caused the detachment.
Suffering from what’s best explained as reverse phantom limb syndrome, the hand aches to reunite with its rightful owner. Clapin, working from a place of utmost earnestness, depicts its voyage through Paris,...
The film’s title refers to what its protagonist, a severed right hand, would note as its current predicament. Separated from the body of Naoufel (Hakim Faris), an orphaned young man who feels adrift, the sentient extremity escapes the lab where it has been kept since a grim accident caused the detachment.
Suffering from what’s best explained as reverse phantom limb syndrome, the hand aches to reunite with its rightful owner. Clapin, working from a place of utmost earnestness, depicts its voyage through Paris,...
- 5/17/2019
- by Carlos Aguilar
- The Wrap
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