Director: Leos Carax
Commissioned originally as a museum piece and later expanded, "It's Not Me" finds director Leos Carax turning the camera on his own four-decade career and asking what, if anything, still holds it together.
What is Its Not Me about?
Rather than following a plot, this forty-two-minute essay film moves in loose association, cutting between clips from Carax's earlier work, new footage, and fragments of archival and political imagery from the decades he has lived through. Questions posed by an unseen interviewer function as a loose spine, prompting reflections on filmmaking, fatherhood, mortality, and the recurring image of his longtime screen alter ego. The director appears both as narrator and subject, occasionally addressing the camera directly, occasionally hiding behind footage of collaborators and past productions. Denis Lavant, his most frequent on-screen collaborator, resurfaces throughout as a kind of visual echo of Carax's own restlessness. The film resists tidy summary by design: it is structured more like a scrapbook read aloud than a documentary with a thesis, and it treats memory as something assembled rather than recalled whole. Watching it works best as an encounter with a filmmaker mid-conversation with his own back catalogue, rather than an introduction meant to explain him from the outside.
Cast & crew
Leos Carax appears as himself, functioning as narrator, subject, and interview partner in a film that blurs the line between director and character. Denis Lavant, a fixture of Carax's cinema for decades, threads through the archival material, while Nastya Golubeva Carax, Loreta Juodkaite, Anna-Isabel Siefken, Ekaterina Yuspina, Petr Anevskii, and Bianca Maddaluno appear in supporting capacities across the film's collage of old and new footage.
Context & significance
The project began as a short commissioned for a museum retrospective before growing into its current form, and it draws directly on Carax's filmography stretching back more than forty years. It is a French production released in 2024, running 42 minutes, and sits closer to essay filmmaking and video art than to conventional narrative cinema. No IMDb rating is available for the title at this time.
Where & how to watch
"It's Not Me" is available to stream on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, presented through an interface built in Farsi for Persian-speaking audiences abroad. Reading about the film costs nothing; watching it only requires logging into a K-Time account.