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You Are Not I

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A young woman escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby car accident and is driven to her sister's house.

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Richard Brody New Yorker With a voice-over that details Ethel's overdone logic and a quietly nerve-jangling score by Phil Kline, Driver conjures vast spans of harrowing experience in infinitesimal gestures. Jun 29, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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eric b Contemporary audiences will be curious about "You Are Not I" because of its credits for the young Jim Jarmusch as cinematographer and co-screenwriter, but this haunting little film has plenty to offer beyond that novelty. Anyway, the director is not Jarmusch but his girlfriend Sara Driver, who's adapting a Paul Bowles short story. "You Are Not I" follows Ethel (Suzanne Fletcher), a morose, ghoulish, near-catatonic woman who finds herself inadvertently freed from an asylum after a transport bus crashes. Amidst the chaos of multiple casualties, Ethel manages to get mistakenly driven to her unloving sister's house. There, an uneasy battle of wills develops. The story is told from Ethel's point of view (she steadily narrates in a detached drone, despite never speaking out loud), but her sense of reality can't be trusted. Deliberately paced and beautifully photographed in gritty black and white, this is a film that your mind will gnaw on for days afterwards. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A young woman escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby car accident and is driven to her sister's house.
Director
Sara Driver
Producer
Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch
Screenwriter
Paul Bowles, Sara Driver, Jim Jarmusch
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 8, 1983, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 8, 2020
Runtime
50m
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