Je ne suis pas morte

  • 190'
  • France
  • 2008
Alix is a woman of 27 looking for the only thing she is incapable of: love. After a series of boyfriends who pass her on to each other, she finds herself in the hands of the pimp Raphaël, who works in Rome and Saint-Ouen. He sells her to a Pole. This man rapes her and leaves her for dead. She's found by Frédéric, whose love has been repeatedly rejected after the breakup with his wife, and Hélène, a young woman who is taking care of her comatose mother. Alix and Frédéric have a sort of relationship and form two opposite poles in the concept of love, about which the film philosophises at length. Despite this charged subject, the film also maintains a light tone.
I Did Not Die, a three-hour film, is made up of three parts: Par les beaux soirs d'été, followed by Le chant des séparés and ending with Par des chemins étranges. There is a surfeit of anecdotes and stories within stories are repeatedly told in an unconventional way. The imagination is unbounded, and that can occasionally seem too ambitious and repetitive but in any case it's always surprising. You could say that Jean-Charles Fitousse has shaped his ars poetica.


  • 190'
  • France
  • 2008
Director
Jean-Charles Fitoussi
Country of production
France
Year
2008
Festival Edition
IFFR 2009
Length
190'
Medium
35mm
International title
I Did Not Die
Languages
French, German
Producers
Jean-Charles Fitoussi, Emmanuel Chaumet
Production Companies
Aura été Production, Ecce Films
Sales
Aura été Production
Screenplay
Jean-Charles Fitoussi
Cinematography
Sébastien Buchmann
Editor
Jean-Charles Fitoussi, Catherine Krassovsky, Junko Watanabe
Production Design
Emmanuel Chaumet, Jean-Charles Fitoussi
Sound Design
Benjamin Bober & Erwan Kerzanet
Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cast
Alix Derouin
Director
Jean-Charles Fitoussi
Country of production
France
Year
2008
Festival Edition
IFFR 2009
Length
190'
Medium
35mm
International title
I Did Not Die
Languages
French, German
Producers
Jean-Charles Fitoussi, Emmanuel Chaumet
Production Companies
Aura été Production, Ecce Films
Sales
Aura été Production
Screenplay
Jean-Charles Fitoussi
Cinematography
Sébastien Buchmann
Editor
Jean-Charles Fitoussi, Catherine Krassovsky, Junko Watanabe
Production Design
Emmanuel Chaumet, Jean-Charles Fitoussi
Sound Design
Benjamin Bober & Erwan Kerzanet
Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cast
Alix Derouin