Young Jeanne (Noémie Merlant, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) spent her childhood at the amusement park. Now in her early 20s and living at home with her uninhibited and overbearing bartender mother (Emmanuelle Bercot, MY KING), she's managed to score a job there, taking the graveyard janitorial shift. Despite her mother's pleas to find a man, introverted Jeanne is content to tinker with electronics alone in her room, replicating the attractions of the park in miniature, but soon her late-night job awakens feelings she can't explain. It's not an infatuation with her new boss, Marc (Bastien Bouillon, DECLARATION OF WAR), who comes over at her matchmaking mother's insistence. No, Jeanne has fallen for the newest attraction at the park, a ride that she's nicknamed Jumbo, with "his" red lights, smooth chrome and oily hydraulics, and has sparked up a thrilling new intimate relationship under the cover of night. Inspired by real cases of objectophilia, Zoé Wittock's cheeky love story is surprisingly sweet thanks in large part to Merlant's wide-eyed performance and commitment to her character, as she takes a question Marc's mother asked to its logical extreme: "Inanimate objects, do you have a soul which sticks to our soul and forces it to love?" Official Selection, 2020 Sundance, Berlin, Mill Valley, Sitges and AFI FEST film festivals.
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- Year2020
- Runtime93 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryBelgium, France, Luxembourg
- RatingNOT RATED
- NoteWith English subtitles.
- DirectorZoé Wittock
- ScreenwriterZoé Wittock
- ProducerAnaïs Bertrand, Annabella Nezri, Gilles Chanial
- CastNoémie Merlant, Emmanuelle Bercot, Bastien Bouillon
Young Jeanne (Noémie Merlant, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) spent her childhood at the amusement park. Now in her early 20s and living at home with her uninhibited and overbearing bartender mother (Emmanuelle Bercot, MY KING), she's managed to score a job there, taking the graveyard janitorial shift. Despite her mother's pleas to find a man, introverted Jeanne is content to tinker with electronics alone in her room, replicating the attractions of the park in miniature, but soon her late-night job awakens feelings she can't explain. It's not an infatuation with her new boss, Marc (Bastien Bouillon, DECLARATION OF WAR), who comes over at her matchmaking mother's insistence. No, Jeanne has fallen for the newest attraction at the park, a ride that she's nicknamed Jumbo, with "his" red lights, smooth chrome and oily hydraulics, and has sparked up a thrilling new intimate relationship under the cover of night. Inspired by real cases of objectophilia, Zoé Wittock's cheeky love story is surprisingly sweet thanks in large part to Merlant's wide-eyed performance and commitment to her character, as she takes a question Marc's mother asked to its logical extreme: "Inanimate objects, do you have a soul which sticks to our soul and forces it to love?" Official Selection, 2020 Sundance, Berlin, Mill Valley, Sitges and AFI FEST film festivals.
Please note: this title is available to viewers located anywhere in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC.
- Year2020
- Runtime93 minutes
- LanguageFrench
- CountryBelgium, France, Luxembourg
- RatingNOT RATED
- NoteWith English subtitles.
- DirectorZoé Wittock
- ScreenwriterZoé Wittock
- ProducerAnaïs Bertrand, Annabella Nezri, Gilles Chanial
- CastNoémie Merlant, Emmanuelle Bercot, Bastien Bouillon