‘Something rather special.’
Screen Daily
Everybody has always loved Jeanne. These days, she hates herself – and the hairy troll-like creatures that burst out of her subconscious to comment on her life aren’t helping.
Up to her ears in debt, Jeanne goes to Lisbon to sell her deceased mother’s apartment. As her life falls apart she runs into both the odd Jean (who remembers her from high school and has harboured a long-time crush) and her now-married ex-boyfriend, Vitor – with cringey consequences.
Writer, director and animator Céline Devaux’s charming debut feature is an unconventional rom-com and a witty, compelling and frequently surprising portrait of a woman in crisis just doing her best. Devaux’s innovative use of laugh-out-loud hand-drawn animation combined with live action narrative creates an engagingly anarchic visual style and a sense of mischief which makes Everybody Loves Jeanne irresistible viewing.