From her beautiful animated shorts, Céline Devaux retains a sense of friction. By refusing to choose between drawing and cinema live for its passage to the long, it installs a nice dissonance between the public and smooth image of Jeanne (Blanche Gardin), boss of start-ups called to become the champion of BFM Business, and her sadistic inner voices (pencil) which invite you to throw yourself under a bus rather than go to a big lawyer’s office. Her project supposed to clean the plastics of the oceans has just foundered, she is crippled with debts, no one has touched her for months, might as well end up in a big splash… And then, no, it seems wiser to go get green in Lisbon, in the empty apartment of this mother who threw herself off a bridge. On my way, Everybody loves Joan sheds its sense of contradiction, sordid and charming, to become a simple romantic comedy between a depressive in denial and a charming kleptomaniac (Laurent Laffitte).
“Everyone loves Jeanne”, banal mechanics – Liberation
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Céline Devaux’s film, starring Blanche Gardin, starts out offbeat but turns out to be just an ordinary romantic comedy.