“Holy Motors” auteur Leos Carax has been making genre-defying, mind-bending films for 40 years, since 1984’s “Boy Meets Lady.” Now he’s undertaking one other first: The primary day-and-date theatrical/streaming launch to happen on the Criterion Channel, courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Movies.
Carax’s newest movie “It’s Not Me” shall be launched December 10 through restricted theatrical engagements in New York and Los Angeles whereas concurrently streaming on Criterion Channel following a live-stream premiere that day. On the identical time, you should purchase “It’s Not Me” on Amazon, Apple, Google Play, and Fandango at Residence for $14.99. IndieWire is proud to solely debut the trailer and poster for “It’s Not Me” under.
This follows the unique streaming premieres on Criterion Channel for “Evil Does Not Exist” and “The Beast.” And it’s distinctive as a result of Carax has beforehand indicated his qualms with streaming, even regardless of the help of Amazon Studios for his most up-to-date earlier movie, “Annette.” However, hey, he generally zigs once you count on him to zag: Carax has additionally mentioned he’d wish to make a superhero film.
“It’s Not Me” is a Godard-like essay movie, during which Carax displays on his 40-year profession and situates it within the context of 100+ years of movie historical past. You may see within the trailer, from the show of blocky onscreen textual content, silent-film-style goofs, bounce cuts, and the final collage-like ambition of the movie, how a lot it does pay respect to the French New Wave grasp, particularly his later movies akin to “Histoire(s) du Cinema.” Even “Holy Motors” star Denis Lavant seems in “It’s Not Me.”
Per Sideshow and Janus’s official description, “Quite than self-aggrandize, Carax makes use of this diaristic format for an iconoclastic and impudent inquiry into energy, politics, and image-making that’s directly wry and playful, indirect and deeply private.”
Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou as an set up work for an exhibition that by no means befell, “It’s Not Me” made its world premiere on the 2024 Cannes Movie Competition within the Cannes Premieres part. It options Denis Lavant, Katerina Yuspina, Nastya Golubeva Carax, Loreta Juodkaite, Anna-Isabel Siefken, Petr Anevskii, Bianca Maddaluno, Juliette Binoche, Michel Piccoli, Jean-François Balmer, Guillaume Depardieu, and Katerina Golubeva.
Have your thoughts blown under.
