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Antidepressant

EVERYBODY LOVES JEANNE
TOUT LE MONDE AIME JEANNE

• Director: Céline Devaux
• FRANCE, PORTUGAL / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 100’ / French, Portuguese; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Céline Devaux
• Director of Photography: Olivier Boonjng
• Editing: Gabrielle Stemmer
• Music: Flavien Berger
• Cast: Blanche Gardin, Laurent Lafitte, Maxence Tual, Nuno Lopez, Marthe Keller
• Producer: Sylvie Pialat, Benoit Quainon, Luis Urbano
• Production Co.: Les Films du Worso, O Som e a Furia
• World Sales: Elle Driver

Everybody has always loved Jeanne, who was set out to save the world. These days, she hates herself, though. Up to her ears in debt, she has to go to Lisbon and sell her mother’s apartment, who passed away one year ago. At the airport, she runs into Jean, a whimsical and somewhat intrusive former high school classmate. As if this is not enough, she is constantly flanked by ‘Little Ghost,’ a tiny hairy creature who comments on her every move, whispering obscenities into her ear. ‘I wanted to write a comedy about depression and therefore talk about all the toxic thoughts that go through us when we’re not feeling well. I had to find a way to portray them joyfully,’ says director and illustrator Céline Devaux about her feature film debut, a charming and unconventional romantic comedy that premiered at Cannes 2022 within the International Critics’ Week section.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.