How Netflix's 'I Lost My Body' turns animation on its head, with the story of a severed hand
An intrepid severed hand braves the streets of Paris in Jeremy Clapin's Oscar-nominated "I Lost My Body," an audaciously exceptional and critically adored animated feature. Separated in an accident from Naoufel (Hakim Faris), a downhearted young Moroccan immigrant, the sentient extremity carries with it tactile memories of childhood and traverses daunting obstacles to reach its destination. It's certain that its return is critical to the survival of its owner.
Naoufel, who once aspired to being an astronaut or a pianist, has settled into the thankless monotony of a pizza delivery job and isolating loneliness. Already broken internally before getting physically injured, he must make peace with his incompleteness. Meanwhile, the yearning hand races back to him.
"We are not singular inside us, we are made by different parts of ourselves: childhood, hopes, dreams, regrets," Clapin said recently during a stop in Los Angeles for the chaos of awards season. "Sometimes life, destiny, removes things from us, and
