When you think of French movies, what do you think of?
Like the French and the attributes of the French nation, it is a small and fresh sense of literature and art, and it is also the coexistence of a vigorous blend of soul and body.
For example, the French love movie "Adele's Life" that Red Face Xiuying once introduced to everyone,
Under the dappled sunlight picture of light and shadow, the kiss of golden brown and light gray blue is full of youthful beauty,
However, in the truth of the breakup after not loving, it is all the cruelty and humanity of reality, and the rapid change of cold and warm makes people chill.
There is a breathtaking passing by on the road at first sight,
There is the warmth of the bright sunshine and the ambiguous romance of "she paints for her" under the green trees,
There are also the corners of the mouth that eat wildly when hungry, full of spaghetti sauce, and there are also a lot of crazy close-up "boat" scenes,
This is the youth of the French, crazy, primitive and beautiful, dreamy.
Another masterpiece of French-style cinema is "The Wild Rose of Paris",
There are both the gorgeous madness and self-pity and self-love of the French in love, and there are also the fresh, sunny and beautiful, poetic oil painting-like scenes in literary films.
There are also those large sections of "love first" affectionate dialogue.
This is the unique thing about French cinema, French people and French style, which is so popular all over the world.
In the inadvertent display of hands and feet, full of beauty, but not the unrealistic beauty of the innocent moaning on the illusion,
Among them, laughter and anger, crying and making a big fuss are real emotional explosions and displays of human emotions.
The combination of brutal reality and dreamy beauty,
Yes, that's the French flair and the essence of French cinema.
And today, what Red Face Xiuying wants to introduce to you is a French animation:
"I Lost My Body"
"I Lost My Body" is based on the Oscar-nominated novel "Happy Hands" by Guillaume Laurent,
The film received a word-of-mouth rating of 8.1 on Douban,
It also won the Critics' Week award at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
A story of two intertwined lines,
On the one hand, it is romantic and beautiful, on the other hand, it is a terrible escape, but there is also tenderness in the escape, and there is also loss in romance.
A severed hand escapes its unfortunate fate in a laboratory in Paris, and it decides to reconnect with the body,
On a creepy adventure through the city, the broken hand fights many obstacles such as pigeons and rats.
Only to reunite with his own body "Pizza Delivery Boy" Lauughfield.
"I Lost My Body" is a very rare animation film with two lines intertwined.
What is more special is that unlike Makoto Shinkai's "Your Name", the two lines are intertwined but the overall style is unified.
The two lines in this animated film are two very different styles.
In the two lines of "I Lost My Body",
One line of horror tension is full of the excitement of doomsday escape, one line is a little sweetness in sorrow,
But what is common is that there is a sense of sadness and loneliness in the background of two different story lines.
It's like the protagonists of the story, North African boys and Asian girls.
Although they ride in the traffic of Paris, or sit quietly and calmly in the Library of Paris, doing safe and simple book collection work,
But in essence, they have skin color differences, and they are shaky and lonely in the world-famous romantic capital or the background of life.
The background of this movie has the true face of Paris hidden under the glittering lights,
And this is a cartoon with a somewhat cult temperament and dark and cold tones, but it can touch the hearts of those who have drifted for this beautiful city more than most films related to Paris.
And the picture of the broken hand drifting also shows us the temperament of Paris, that is, drifting and dregs under the lights,
The opening story is the story of the escape with a broken hand, the morgue is like a dead and cold studio, the refrigerator is a dry brain and bare eyes,
A severed hand was sneaking out of the watchman's back and running out of the window.
As he crawled over the warm bed of a single mother's little baby,
After touching the brief warmth of the little baby's tender hands, he ran to the dirtiest depths of Paris, and the scenes of the escape with the broken hand were full of the tension and excitement of cult films.
Found by the pigeons on the roof, pushed by the sharp dove's beak to the side of the beam,
In the tension of the severed hand, he grabbed the pigeon's neck to survive, but pulled the pigeon to suffocation and died;
He fell into the garbage heap with the pigeon's body.
Cold, gloomy cleaners in cold mornings, gray and dirty subway speed stations,
Cigarette butts and leftover cans of Italian dumplings everywhere, lighting a lighter under a dirty subway station and fighting with swarms of rats,
Standing on the top of a tall building, you can see not the Paris that symbolizes the Eiffel Tower, but the world that does not belong in the lights and traffic.
From the encounter of "broken hand", the director portrayed the Paris in reality very delicately and realistically.
Dirty subway stations, single mothers calling their lovers under ambiguous lights, indifferent alienation between traffic, crowded and slow old subways, and late nights when rats cross the street.
The Seine and the Eiffel Tower, the Duffili Gardens and the Louvre are the beautiful Paris of art,
The crowded, dilapidated, and often malfunctioning subway is also Paris,
The bloody, bizarre and often jumping dangers in the shots show the director's strong ability to mobilize emotions.
And the love of North African boys, as the main line, shows the poetry and romance in the French mood,
A boy delivering pizza is late for pizza and meets an Asian girl on the 35th floor of the building, chatting endlessly across the cold access control.
The boy tells the girl to close her eyes and listen to the rain, and the girl tells the boy about her former tenant, tenant, feelings about the rain, and her favorite taste of pizza.
Just because of a rainy night takeaway encounter, I fell in love with your elegant and gentle voice after the cold access control,
The boy who lost his family and job, because love rekindled enthusiasm and hope,
In order to get close to the girl, he goes to the library to meet the carpentry apprentice of the girl's uncle and build her a silent igloo in the bustling city.
However, he was rejected by the coldness of the girl who was accustomed to being enthusiastic to everyone,
In the end, he also caused him to cut off his right hand, destroying all hope.
In fact, just a passage of chat across the gate is enough to witness the "romance" of France.
It is inadvertent, a chat on a rainy night, an encounter in a café, can make people because of the occasional soul resonance, and the impulse to fight for themselves.
The mode of getting along between the two people also has a collision in the French youth love concept,
For girls, boys can do boring carpentry, build igloos, go to parties that they are not interested in, and even lose their right hand.
He can give everything for love.
And the girl is not cold and indifferent to him, she is another kind of French casualness,
She also likes him, but she is not a girl who fights for love, she can go to the party, she can take the cigarette handed by the boy's brother, she can leave angrily,
Even after listening to the last tape recorder left by the boy, the expression was faint,
She also cares and loves it, but only until this step.
In the finale, I lost my parents, I lost my love, I lost my dream of becoming a pianist, I lost my carpentry and courier job,
The boy, who had nothing, suddenly ran to the top of the building and jumped,
Jumping from the wooden board through the traffic to the giant crane opposite the city, his life has been entangled in accidents and bad luck, everything seems to be doomed in the dark, he can't dodge, he can't win,
Having lost his hands, he couldn't even let go of a fight, he could only jump the whole city with his feet, but he didn't expect him to do it;
In the fate of the hereditary of doom, once he finally jumped out of the established shackles in the cage,
The boy, who was naked, sat on the crane and looked up at the whole city, with no plan and no future, but because of this short breakaway, he had some strength to move forward alone.
Man's whole life is lost,
But only an occasional successful provocation in the established trajectory of destiny can make us feel the romantic and stubborn reasons for the weak freedom.
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