I Lost My Body's reviews
Media reviews
Los Angeles Times
You might say this magical, intoxicating piece of work does not have an ordinary bone in its body, and what a delight that turns out to be.
Variety
One of the strangest ideas ever committed to animation ? a severed hand seek answers ? ultimately proves to be one of the medium's most profound offerings.
Cinemanía
A succession of visual decisions as majestic as groundbreaking a story as simple as life itself: that of the search for identity. [...] Impeccable existential gem of recent animated cinema.
La Vanguardia
A bold and original display of ingenuity in which Clapin offers a sensory story that works with millimeter precision.
Indiewire
Anyone who?s willing to meet this movie on its own terms and roll with the dream logic it requires will be rewarded with a resonantly cathartic saga about the struggle to find beauty in a world that forces us to leave parts of ourselves behind.
Cineuropa
A moving, inventive, and prodigious gem of storytelling.
Cahiers du Cinéma
It takes little time to perceive the promising originality of 'I Lost My Body', and hardly more to understand that the first feature film by Jérémy Clapin opens up an exciting path.
Le Monde
This complexity of the story and the situations is made clear by the beauty that Jérémy Clapin gives to landscapes that are generally not conducive to emotion. The palettes (that of the sequences devoted to the hand is not that of the flashbacks) are economical, but the elegance of the compositions and the line, and the music of Dan Levy give them an unexpected scale.
The Guardian
Hands down, this is the best animation of 2019.
The Hollywood Reporter
A highly original and rather touching account of loss, both physical and emotional.