This wasn’t as strange as I thought a movie about a woman falling in love with an amusement park ride would be. It is a beautiful idiosyncratic metaphor for forbidden love outside of societal norms. The colors were so cool. I’d love to know how they made this. The ride is able to show a range of emotions and beauty through lights alone. Noémie Merlant is such an amazing actress. I loved her in PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE last year and she is so good in this one too. She carries the emotional weight of a whole romance on her shoulder, as most of the time she acts opposite a large piece of machinery. The scene on stage at the end of the film alone is so brutal to her. You get a real sense of her loss and pain. The Mom is also such a huge dick in how she treats her daughter that it is painfully gross. I don’t know what to make of her because the relationship between her and her daughter is a major crux of the film and all I want is for Jeanne to be away from her.
