Jessica Forever

2018 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 54% · 13 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 21%
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 1110 1.1K

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Director

Caroline Poggi Photo
Caroline Poggi

Top cast

Théo Costa-Marini Photo
Théo Costa-Marini as Trésor
Sebastian Urzendowsky Photo
Sebastian Urzendowsky as Michael
Aomi Muyock Photo
Aomi Muyock as Jessica
Paul Hamy Photo
Paul Hamy as Raiden
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890.12 MB
1280*692
French 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
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1.79 GB
1920*1038
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles ru  us  fr  de  it  kr  pl  pt  es  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by GustavoA-240 4 / 10

Goes nowhere

Some weeks ago someone told me that there're director's that were made to create amazing music videos, but the ended up doing movies by some reason.I think that's exactly what happened: a bunch of really well done and beautiful photography (charged with meaning) but with a very poor script and character development.Sadly, the main idea seems good but is poorly developed and you finish the movie with an underwhelming feeling that you watched...nothing?I get that experimental films are more focused on little details, on specific frames and photography (already said that), but this is not good at all.This would've been an amazing music video, but as a movie...i don't know.
Reviewed by lucasdanby 5 / 10

Another Weird French Film From Another Weird French Director

To start off, I'm not sure exactly why Shudder acquired rights to this film. It's not horror, nor is it something that they'd usually push on their platform, especially as a "Shudder Original". At any rate, this movie is very... French. Super experimental, super weird, and super unrewarding.The whole premise is supposed to be a dystopian world (which is not at all dystopian, but more like a late 2010s world where absolutely nothing has changed) where these misfit orphans rule the world and "take back what is rightfully theirs" (which never happens at all outside of dialogue). This is an intriguing enough story, and there are so many scenes in this movie that should have enriched it, but with all of the scenes and all of the characters, so little happens. In fact, you could argue that nothing at all happens.And what does happen include some very weird things including but not limited to: letters on a birthday cake floating around, a dead sister reanimating to play a video game with her brother, a gun floating around a bedroom and speaking through another character, blood randomly covering someone, and someone lighting themselves on fire. And the list goes on.Now, the writing isn't in itself terrible, but it's just a plot that is severely underutilized and does nothing in the way of storytelling. So maybe the whole point of the film was to show the inherent beauty of meaninglessness and the struggle of being alone, but I personally think that, A) if that was the point, it was done poorly, and B) stories like that aren't always great or enjoyable.I do like an experimental film here and there, but this one was too grounded in reality for the absurdity to feel like any more than distraction and wasted potential.
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