I Lost My Body

Striking and wonderful hand-drawn animation highlights this original, Oscar-nominated, creative, touching, quirky, melancholy, 81-minute, 2019 animated French film with an unexpected ending, told in flashbacks, and based on Guillaume Laurant's novel Happy Hand in which a severed, tenacious hand escapes a French laboratory in the 1990s and encounters a harrowing, treacherous journey while searching the Paris streets for the rest of its body in the form of a pizza delivery man (voiceover by Hakim Faris/Dev Patel), who lost his parents (voiceovers by Hichem Mesbah/Anouar H. Smaine and Myriam Loucif/Sarah Lynn Dawson) in a tragic car accident as a child (voiceover by Alphonse Arfi/Tucker Chandler) and becomes an apprentice to a kindhearted carpenter (Patrick d'Assumçao/George Wendt) to get closer to a comely librarian (voiceover by Victoire Du Bois/Alia Shawkat) with whom he is smitten.
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