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Four new films to see this week

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Jumbo review – a tender, kooky love story between girl and … fairground ride

Jumbo review – a tender, kooky love story between girl and … fairground ride
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Jumbo review: tender mechaphilia drama

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Jumbo Film Review: Offbeat Love Story Joins Woman and Park Attraction For an Unusual Ride

Jumbo Film Review: Offbeat Love Story Joins Woman and Park Attraction For an Unusual Ride TheWrap 2/18/2021 love your car? And what if it loved you back? Jumbo, a movie inspired by the real-life woman who married the Eiffel Tower, claiming she d fallen passionately in love with it, is Belgian writer-director Zoé Wittock s fractured fairy tale of a feature debut about a withdrawn young woman played by Portrait of a Lady on Fire star Noémie Merlant, who develops deep emotional feelings for her local park s newest passenger-spinning, brightly illuminated ride. While it s easy to imagine filmmakers from all parts of the outcast-fantasy firmament responding with glee at the cinematic doorways waiting to be opened if Jumbo shows post-festival life Spielberg, Cronenberg, start your human-loves-thing engines! Wittock s film is ultimately more of a well-intended melodramatic experiment than a fully realized love story about one of the more curious corners of humanity s se

Jumbo review: Noémie Merlant falls in love with a carnival ride

Mostly, this is a character study. Jeanne (Merlant) lives in a provincial Belgian town with her single mom, Margarette (Emmanuelle Bercot), a no-nonsense bartender with more romantic regrets than she can count. It’s implied but never stated outright that Jeanne isn’t like other people; the armchair diagnosis is that she’s on the autism spectrum, given her discomfort in social settings, obsessive interest in machines, and difficulty with eye contact. Margarette keeps trying to set her up with local boys, but Jeanne’s never had romantic feelings toward anyone that is, until the amusement park where she works introduces a new ride, a tilt-a-whirl Jeanne nicknames “Jumbo.”

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