For an exhibition, that in the end never took place, the Pompidou Museum asked the filmmaker to reply, in pictures, to the question : Where are you at, Leos Carax? He attempts an answer - full of questions. About himself and “his” world: "I don’t know, but if I did, I’d reply that…" It's Not Me is a free-form self-portrait of Leos Carax rediscovering the figures from his oeuvre. Traversing his 40-year filmography, it visits the decisive moments of his career, while capturing the political evolution of the time. The film, full of references and influences, from F.W. Murnau to Jean Vigo and Godard, is a personal manifesto in which cinema, history and real life become interchangeable, and in which the author tries to situate his output within film's larger trajectory.
France 2024, '42
DIRECTOR: Leos Carax
SCENARIO: Leos Carax
CAMERA: Caroline Champetier
MONTAGE: Leos Carax
PRODUCERS: Charles Gillibert
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Leos Carax
Leos Carax is one of the most inventive and acclaimed auteurs in French cinema. A former critic at Cahiers du Cinéma, he transitioned to directing in the early 1980s and immediately established himself as a revelation with two films that became cult classics, Boy Meets Girl and Mauvais Sang, both emblematic of the post-New Wave revival in french cinema.
This was followed by The Lovers on the Bridge and Pola X, which confirmed the precocious genius of Leos Carax, whose romantic art and formal experiments were now recognized worldwide.
Several rumors and strokes of fate will then build the legend of a unique artist, until his big comeback at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 with the film Holy Motors, considered by part of the international press (IndieWire, Les Inrockuptibles) as the second most important film of the 21st century.
In 2021, his film Annette, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, opened the Cannes Film Festival, where he won the award for Best Director.
