You Are Not I

1981

Action / Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 435 435

woman director

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Plot summary

A young woman escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby multiple-car accident. She is mistaken for a shock victim and is driven to her sister's house by a rescue volunteer. Then the real story begins...

Director

Sara Driver Photo
Sara Driver

Top cast

Nan Goldin Photo
Nan Goldin as Accident Victim
Joan Welles Photo
Joan Welles as Inmate at Accident
Suzanne Fletcher Photo
Suzanne Fletcher as Ethel
Joan Janette Photo
Joan Janette as Dead Body
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450.52 MB
956*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
12 hr 49 min
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836.39 MB
1424*1072
English 2.0
NR
us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 49 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by eric b 7 / 10

Contemporary audiences will be curious about "You Are

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.
Reviewed by lor_

Interior psychodrama

My review was written in December 1985 after watching the film on New Video cassette.Made in 1981, Sara Driver's featurette "You Are Not I" is an intriguing but overlong interior psychodrama.The angular-featured Suzanne Fletcher toplines as Ethel, a sympathetic mental patient who escapes from an asylum to visit the home of her sister (Melody Schneider). Relying mainly on evenly-spoken voice-over narration by Ethel, picture succeeds in presenting her out-of-it point-of-view. Tricky ending has Ethel thinking she has effected a personality transfer with her sister, with perhaps thw wrong woman sent back to the asylum. Visual and narration clues indicate otherwise.Though Jim Jarmusch ("Stranger than Paradise") has photographed the film in black & white with a look that reeks of a pretentious student film, Driver succeeds in the difficult task of portraying the character's introverted personality. Acting as her own editor, she could have improved the pic by pruning her lengthy takes. With leading lady Fletcher generally sitting quite still (under the impression that she can will things to happen), film's mood approximates the finale of "Psycho", where Anthony Perkins remained immobile, contemplating a fly.
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