French movie Everybody Loves Jeanne, a story about a career flop and how to survive it, is an appealing mix of comedy and weirdness.
. The last movie I saw that combined comedy and strangeness in this fashion, was Maren Ade’s, in which a woman with a high-powered job is tormented by an embarrassing father who wants to be part of everything. In Céline Devaux’s debut feature, one of the hits of this year’s French Film Festival, the lead character is haunted by her mother, who has committed suicide but still makes occasional appearances.
This is, however, the least of Jeanne’s problems. When we meet her, she is at the height of her fame as the inventor of a device called Nausicaa, which promises to extract tonnes of microplastic from the world’s oceans. Intent on nothing less than saving the planet, she is thrilled when an admiring journalist tells her she is “woman of the year”. Woman of the year? Why not woman of the century? she fantasises.
With Simon’s blessing she sets off for Portugal to pack up the flat, but while waiting in the transit lounge she is approached by a “weird-looking” guy she has watched stealing a pair of sunglasses. This character, Jean , knows her from French school in Lisbon, although she doesn’t remember him at all. “Everybody loved Jeanne,” he recalls, as Jeanne sinks deeper into self-hatred.
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