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Movie Info

Filmmaker Frank Beauvais decides to move back to Paris after living in solitude in the country for years.

Genre:

documentary, drama
Original Language:

French (France)
Director:

Frank Beauvais
Producer:

Matthieu Deniau, Michel Klein, Justin Taurand
Writer:

Frank Beauvais
Release Date (Theaters):

Feb 19, 2020 limited
Runtime:

1h 15m
Production Co:

Centre national de la Cinématographie, Les Films du Bélier, Le Studio Orlando, Les Films Hatari

Cast & Crew

Frank Beauvais
Director

Frank Beauvais
Writer

Matthieu Deniau
Producer

Michel Klein
Producer

Justin Taurand
Producer

Thomas Marchand
Film Editor

Critic Reviews for Just Don't Think I'll Scream

All Critics (16) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (16)

While the visual component of Just Don't Think I'll Scream is characterized by the unrecognizable, the arcane, the audio element coheres as a stream of facts, dates, events, lucid thoughts and connections.

January 29, 2021 | Full Review…

Melissa Anderson
4Columns
The movie screams nothing so much as the pained self-absorption of depression - an anguished revelation, but dead-on.

January 28, 2021 | Full Review…

Nicolas Rapold
New York Times
Its most immediate appeal is the simple scavenger's thrill of encountering so many tantalizing images in different formats from across film history in swift succession.

January 25, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Carson Lund
Slant Magazine
Beauvais lived to tell the tale - often in engrossing detail.

June 24, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Cath Clarke
Guardian
A highly original and personal movie memoir.

February 11, 2019 | Full Review…

Jordan Mintzer
Hollywood Reporter
Just Don't Think plays a game of its own, then, candidly revealing one moment and slyly obscuring the next.

February 18, 2021 | Full Review…

Leo Goldsmith
Reverse Shot
It's a brazen idea for a film, but the steady flow of images does somehow deepen the emotional feel of what it must have been like during Beauvais's struggle.

February 8, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…

Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
This project manages to turn found footage into an arresting first-person essay.

February 2, 2021 | Full Review…

Dennis Harvey
48 Hills
Just Don't Think I'll Scream works beautifully, precisely because it's so personal. This is what an essay film of a true cinephile should look like.

January 30, 2021 | Full Review…

Dustin Chang
ScreenAnarchy
Viewers will have to embrace overpowering stimuli. For those who can, it's quite a wild ride.

January 29, 2021 | Full Review…

Diane Carson
KDHX (St. Louis)
[A] search for comfort at 24 frames per second, of beautiful unidentified shots. [Full review in Spanish]

September 9, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…

Daniel de Partearroyo
Cinemanía (Spain)
Beyond the impeccable editing , the video essay is a great ode to the extreme close-up: the giallo's colorful terror, the anxious bressonian hands, the animals and the objects both destroyed and carefully handled. [Full review in Spanish]

August 19, 2020 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…

Agustín Acevedo Kanopa
La Diaria