‘I’m Not Everything I Want to Be’ Review: A Queer Czech Photographer Co-Authors Her Documentary

Ana Maria Rus

While occasionally languorous, the 2026 Czech Oscar entry “I’m Not Everything I Want to Be” is one of the rare documentaries about an artist that goes above and beyond to embody its subject’s creative spirit, often to a fault. Whereas chronicles of its ilk tend to simply perceive their subjects’ work at a distance, Klára Tasovská ’s feature, about queer Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková , conscripts her as a co-author by having her read from her journals throughout the 1970s and ‘80s. It