Jumbo

god said adam and eve not florence and the machine

camila

you vs. the amusement park ride she told you not to worry about

sydney lou who

AFI 2020: film #7 “he just makes me happy. that’s all” a film about the brunette from portrait falling in love with a fun fair ride is the first of the fest to make me cry. beautifully shot and convincingly emotional, sometimes this runs a little off the rails but i…

Lucy

At heart, Zoé Wittock’s “Jumbo” is a rather conventional European dramedy about a single mother (the great Emmanuelle Bercot) struggling to accept the woman her daughter has become. On its surface, however, this pleasantly delirious feature debut tells the fable-like story…

davidehrlich

Jumbo perfectly exemplifies the queer experience, of otherness in a heteronormative society. a society where you're told that your love is "not the same"; where you have to remind others that it's "not [your] fault" for feeling the way you do; where you have to say, "i…

Sara Clements

Stranger things mixed with shape of water. That’s the best I can do

Iman Vellani

I definitely was not meant to find this quite so funny but feel that my life is better for having seen it, at least. It *is* about physical sensation, adrenaline, butterflies, breathtaking pleasure and indescribable thrill - isn’t it? What could be more real than that?

Ella Kemp

“Rouge pour non et vert pour oui” "Red for no and green for yes" Zoé Wittock was inspired by a woman who married the Eiffel Tower in 2007 and made this film. Jeanne (Noémie Merlant) falls in love with an amusement park ride. It was entertaining, endearing, funny,…

Allison M. 🌱

Portrait of a Tilt-a-Whirl on Fire

Ezen