Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022)
(Tout le monde aime Jeanne)
Country: FR/POR
Technical: col/2.35:1 95m
Director: Céline Devaux
Cast: Blanche Gardin, Laurent Lafitte, Maxence Tual, Nuno Lopes, Marthe Keller
Synopsis:
When her prototype for recycling micro-plastics from the ocean misfires, a depressed environmental scientist travels to Lisbon to liquidate her late mother's apartment and pay off her debts. There, on the plane, she meets a supposed old school acquaintance whose unbridled optimism and anarchism gradually win her round to picking up the threads of her life.
Review:
Droll character study showcasing two divergent approaches to life. Jeanne is constantly questioning her own acts and stressing over how others perceive her; played by a well-known satirical comic, she is given a wry interior monologue, via the writer-director's animations, of her state of crisis. In the process the film takes sideswipes at subjects such as the unrealistic standards to which the female of the species subjects herself, estate agents and their foibles, landlords and tenants, lawyers, etc., providing entertainment as well as food for thought. Jeanne's guilt over her mother's suicide, combined with her own professional failure and public humiliation, makes for a potent cocktail causing her to retreat inside her black shell, so that it is Jean's forbearance that ultimately becomes just as touching as her distress.
(Tout le monde aime Jeanne)
Country: FR/POR
Technical: col/2.35:1 95m
Director: Céline Devaux
Cast: Blanche Gardin, Laurent Lafitte, Maxence Tual, Nuno Lopes, Marthe Keller
Synopsis:
When her prototype for recycling micro-plastics from the ocean misfires, a depressed environmental scientist travels to Lisbon to liquidate her late mother's apartment and pay off her debts. There, on the plane, she meets a supposed old school acquaintance whose unbridled optimism and anarchism gradually win her round to picking up the threads of her life.
Review:
Droll character study showcasing two divergent approaches to life. Jeanne is constantly questioning her own acts and stressing over how others perceive her; played by a well-known satirical comic, she is given a wry interior monologue, via the writer-director's animations, of her state of crisis. In the process the film takes sideswipes at subjects such as the unrealistic standards to which the female of the species subjects herself, estate agents and their foibles, landlords and tenants, lawyers, etc., providing entertainment as well as food for thought. Jeanne's guilt over her mother's suicide, combined with her own professional failure and public humiliation, makes for a potent cocktail causing her to retreat inside her black shell, so that it is Jean's forbearance that ultimately becomes just as touching as her distress.
(Tout le monde aime Jeanne)
Country: FR/POR
Technical: col/2.35:1 95m
Director: Céline Devaux
Cast: Blanche Gardin, Laurent Lafitte, Maxence Tual, Nuno Lopes, Marthe Keller
Synopsis:
When her prototype for recycling micro-plastics from the ocean misfires, a depressed environmental scientist travels to Lisbon to liquidate her late mother's apartment and pay off her debts. There, on the plane, she meets a supposed old school acquaintance whose unbridled optimism and anarchism gradually win her round to picking up the threads of her life.
Review:
Droll character study showcasing two divergent approaches to life. Jeanne is constantly questioning her own acts and stressing over how others perceive her; played by a well-known satirical comic, she is given a wry interior monologue, via the writer-director's animations, of her state of crisis. In the process the film takes sideswipes at subjects such as the unrealistic standards to which the female of the species subjects herself, estate agents and their foibles, landlords and tenants, lawyers, etc., providing entertainment as well as food for thought. Jeanne's guilt over her mother's suicide, combined with her own professional failure and public humiliation, makes for a potent cocktail causing her to retreat inside her black shell, so that it is Jean's forbearance that ultimately becomes just as touching as her distress.