Leos Carax’s ‘It’s Not Me’ Gets Day-and-Date Criterion Streaming Premiere — and a New Trailer 

“Holy Motors” auteur Leos Carax has been making genre-defying, mind-bending movies for 40 years, since 1984’s “Boy Meets Girl.” Now he’s accomplishing another first: The first day-and-date theatrical/streaming release to take place on the Criterion Channel, courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Films.

Carax’s latest film “It’s Not Me” will be released December 10 via limited theatrical engagements in New York and Los Angeles while simultaneously streaming on Criterion Channel following a live-stream premiere that day. At the same time, you can purchase “It’s Not Me” on Amazon, Apple, Google Play, and Fandango at Home for $14.99. IndieWire is proud to exclusively debut the trailer and poster for “It’s Not Me” below.

This follows the exclusive streaming premieres on Criterion Channel for “Evil Does Not Exist” and “The Beast.” And it’s unique because Carax has previously indicated his qualms with streaming, even despite the support of Amazon Studios for his most recent previous film, “Annette.” But, hey, he sometimes zigs when you expect him to zag: Carax has also said he’d like to make a superhero movie.

“It’s Not Me” is a Godard-like essay film, in which Carax reflects on his 40-year career and situates it in the context of 100+ years of film history. You can see in the trailer, from the display of blocky onscreen text, silent-film-style goofs, jump cuts, and the general collage-like ambition of the film, how much it does pay respect to the French New Wave master, especially his later films such as “Histoire(s) du Cinema.” Even “Holy Motors” star Denis Lavant appears in “It’s Not Me.”

Per Sideshow and Janus’s official description, “Rather than self-aggrandize, Carax uses this diaristic format for an iconoclastic and impudent inquiry into power, politics, and image-making that is at once wry and playful, oblique and deeply personal.”

Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou as an installation work for an exhibition that never took place, “It’s Not Me” made its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Premieres section. It features Denis Lavant, Katerina Yuspina, Nastya Golubeva Carax, Loreta Juodkaite, Anna-Isabel Siefken, Petr Anevskii, Bianca Maddaluno, Juliette Binoche, Michel Piccoli, Jean-François Balmer, Guillaume Depardieu, and Katerina Golubeva.

Have your mind blown below.