It's Not Me, I Swear!

This is a real favourite of mine. The late 60's style and colours have a lovely warm feel to them. Surburban life in Quebec never looked so stylised yet dull at the same time. The story is painfully sad, suspenseful and funny in turn. Exploring love, jealousy, childhood confusion and frustration. The main character is accident prone, witty and deceitful. He is also tortured by his Mother's need to escape. I found this film slowed down in the middle and my interest slipped away. But it was caught again and I loved it.

Children movies are what I frequently pick to watch and that is how I ended here. This is somehow a similar kind of movie to 'Dennis the Menace'. Only the character wise, but there are plenty of differences illustrating a boy's nuisance and menace. Yeah, it was about a 9 year old boy and his strange and unexpected bahaviour. Don't think in a serious manner, I was saying kind of cute like the one from 'Le Petit Nicolas'. Leon is not happy for their parents' everyday fights. He thinks he can stop it if some distracting thing happened them around. So decides to try with the dangerous game and make them to blame for it. But everything he attempted goes terribly wrong and one day he also loses his beloved one. Then is main focus turn to bring her back. While preparing for it, he falls in love for a neighbour girl. The mischievous boy with the series of unsuccessful event can turn everything back on track is what explained till the end. ''It's better not to lie, but it's worse to lie badly.'' This was the movie like I desired for. An interesting and playful character is what we expect most from a kid role in an entertaining movie. The story also conveys parental negligence over kids with unorthodox character. As the story set in the late 60s, the atmosphere was flawless and looked surreal. Everyone played well, father, mother, brother and so the girl. One of the unforgettable children's movies if you are a fan of this genre. I am not going to disclose how the story ends, but I will be happy if a sequel explains a few things, especially the romance. With the existing end and a beautiful dialogue before the credits roll up I don't know why I thought of a follow-up. Maybe I am so excited to see Leon again because he was so awesome.

I'm speechless. This is hands down the best cinematic performance I've ever seen a child deliver. This movie was all sorts of beautiful and charming while remaining realistic. Wow.

"Não Sou Eu, Eu Juro", é um filme canadense que trata muitíssimo bem sobre as perdas e as loucuras de Léon Dóre, um menino de dez anos de idade. Com uma direção muito simples e que busca mostrar a ingenuidade por trás de um garoto que é visto como uma peste, o diretor Philippe Falardeau consegue trazer ao filme delicadas e belíssimas cenas sobre um amor de infância vivido por Léon e por sua vizinha de mesma idade, Léa. E é aí que as duas crianças entram: Antoine L'Écuyer como Léon Dóre e Catherine Faucher como Léa: ambos em ótimas atuações infantis e que trouxeram muita química para este belo e inocente casal. "Não Sou Eu, Eu Juro" ainda trás frases inteligentes e muito divertidas, que se propõem a explorar a ingenuidade das duas crianças: "A vida não é feita para mim, mas eu pareço ter sido feito para a vida."; "Em tempos de desespero, medidas desesperadas." e por fim "Ela esvaziou minhas reservas de amor por uns vinte anos". O roteiro (como já citado) é super competente e consegue trazer aquele tom de "infância triste" que poucos filmes conseguem. É um filme ao estilo de "Meu Primeiro Amor", mas falado em língua francesa. É poético, doce e que desperta a Léa e o Léon que há dentro de todos nós.

You're a moron if you don't like this movie.STOP

In my opinion, the most heartwarming, gut wrenching, beautiful movie I have ever seen. This is rare to say from an English speaking background (considering the movie is in French). Characters are constructed beautifully and everything about this movie is perfect, even down to the score, written by Patrick Watson. Five stars, not a doubt in my mind. If you don't watch this movie, you are seriously missing out.

Too long by 15 minutes, but still emotionally engaging and hilarious. Comparable to Wes Anderson's best work.

Coming Of Age story about troubled parents, sounds nothing new isn't it... but still touching and funny (somehow)

An unoriginal film about a family crisis and a problem child.

Autant le film demarre sur les chapeaux de roue, autant il degringole a la moitie. Leon est tellement detestable que nous nous plaisons a attendre sa prochaine betise. Par contre, ca chute tellement drastiquement que j'ai decroche. Beaucoup trop moralisateur mais pour la premiere moitie, il est genial