Jumbo

Panorama

"Pleasantly delirious"

IndieWire
  • Archive - Festival 36
  • Director: Zoé Wittock
  • France, Luxembourg, Belgium 2020
  • 93 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Jeanne, a shy young woman, lives at home with her uninhibited bartender mother and works the graveyard shift as a cleaner at an amusement park. During her late-night shifts she begins spending intimate time with an alluring new ride that she decides to call Jumbo. Finding herself seduced by “his” red lights, smooth chrome, and oily hydraulics, Jeanne concludes that the thrilling new relationship she wants to pursue is with Jumbo.

Writer-director Zoé Wittock brings gleeful energy, buoyant humor, and surrealistic style to an unusual type of love story - one between woman and machine.

Feature Debut

 

Video talk with the director


  • Director Zoé Wittock
  • Production Anaïs Bertrand, Annabella Nezri, Gilles Chanial
  • Script Zoé Wittock
  • Cinematography Thomas Buelens
  • Editing Thomas Fernandez
  • Music Thomas Roussel
  • Festivals Sundance, Berlin
  • Actors Noémie Merlant, Emmanuelle Bercot, Sam Louwyck
  • Source WTFilms, Paris