Leos Carax’s IT’S NOT ME

Opens Tuesday, December 10, 2024

SHOWTIMES AT IFC CENTER

One night only: Don’t miss this special screening of the newest film from the visionary filmmaker of Holy Motors and Annette, plus  Carax’s segment from the omnibus 2008 film Tokyo!  

“French cinema firebrand Leos Carax has spent 40 years making galvanizing movies that float in the beautifully perplexing nether space between reality and artifice, from Boy Meets Girl and The Lovers on the Bridge to Holy Motors and the recent musical Annette. In his new film, he lovingly evokes the aesthetics of Jean-Luc Godard, paying aptly cheeky respect to the late New Wave master, his own career, and cinema itself, rummaging through a century of movies to situate his work within a continuum of the medium. Rather than self-aggrandize, he uses this diaristic format for an iconoclastic and impudent inquiry into power, politics, and image-making that is at once wry and playful, oblique and deeply personal.” (New York Film Festival)

“Offers more to ponder and treasure than many three-hour features.”—Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“An elliptical personal history of Carax’s engagement with cinema.”—Isaac Feldberg, RogerEbert.com

Screening with “Merde,” Carax’s segment from the 2008 omnibus film Tokyo!, starring longtime Carrax collaborator Denis Lavant as as an unkempt, gibberish-spewing creature who dwells in the city’s sewers and rises to attack unsuspecting locals in increasingly brazen and terrifying ways.

A Sideshow/Janus Films release. 

Program running time: approximately 75 min.

 

 

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