Directed by:
Mehdi Ben AttiaScreenplay:
Mehdi Ben AttiaCinematography:
Grégoire de CalignonCast:
Mehdi Dehbi, Maria de Medeiros, Emmanuel Salinger, Driss Ramdi, Judith Davis, Laurent Bateau, Albert Delpy, Slimane Dazi, Nicolas Maury, Salim Kechiouche (more)Plots(1)
Yacine lives with his brother Jamel in a cramped Parisian apartment. He works as a motorcycle courier, although he is also a brilliant political science student. When a delivery job takes him to the home of his professor Richard Artaud, his life is thrown off course. Both the professor and his wife, an actress, show an extraordinary, if disturbingly paternalistic interest in him. Shortly thereafter, the professor suddenly dies – disappearing into complete darkness in a breathtaking scene – and Yacine makes a strange confession to Eléonore: "I am not dead".
Mehdi Ben Attias's second film can be interpreted as a ghost story, as a love triangle involving the transmigration of souls, or even as a treatise on class restrictions and discrimination. Yet luckily the director isn't willing to make things so easy, as Yacine's identity remains pointedly inscrutable. Je ne suis pas mort is a fascinating reflection on the roles that people play: as a son, a brother, a lover, a thinker, the representative of a function or of an idea.
(Berlinale)
Cast
Mehdi Dehbi
Belgium
Best movies:
The Other Son (2012)
Cairo Conspiracy (2022)
A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Maria de Medeiros
Portugal
Best movies:
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) - a.f.
My Life Without Me (2003)
Emmanuel Salinger
France
Best movies:
Don’t Forget You’re Going to Die (1995)
The Taste of Things (2023)
The Sentinel (1992)
Driss Ramdi
Best movies:
A Decent Man (2015)
String, The (2009)
Mutants (2009)
Judith Davis
France
Best movies:
Long Live Freedom (2013)
Inside the Cell (2015)
Le Week-End (2013)
Laurent Bateau
France
Best movies:
The Concert (2009)
Mortal Transfer (2001)
The Sense of Wonder (2015)
Albert Delpy
Best movies:
The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) (series)
Before Sunset (2004)
The Violent People (1970)
Slimane Dazi
France
Best movies:
A Prophet (2009)
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)
Nicolas Maury
France
Best movies:
Let My People Go ! (2011)
Knife + Heart (2018)
Labor Day (2020)
Salim Kechiouche
France
Best movies:
Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Mektoub, My Love (2017)
Criminal Lovers (1999)
Martin Pautard
Best movies:
Two (2002)
Nobody from Nowhere (2014)
Hellphone (2007)
Alain Azérot
Best movies:
Les Liens du sang (2007) (TV movie)
The Third Wave (2003)
La Machine (1994)
Dimitri Storoge
Best movies:
Belle and Sebastian (2013)
A Gang Story (2011)
The Scent of Mandarin (2015)
Loïc Legendre
Best movies:
Serial (Bad) Weddings (2014)
Elle (2016)
Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
Aleksandra Yermak
Poland
Best movies:
Cold War (2018)
The Legions (2019)
Madame Claude (2021)