French actor Noémie Merlant plays a young woman who falls in love with a funfair ride in Zoé Wittock’s “Jumbo,” which is screening in Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Variety spoke to her ...

Exclusive: The "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" star leads this bizarre romance, opening in select theaters next month. You’ve heard of unlikely romances, but the star of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” and ...

Sundance: "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" star Noémie Merlant seduces a massive tilt-a-whirl in this tender and erotic Belgian charmer. At heart, Zoé Wittock’s “Jumbo” is a rather conventional European ...

Noémie Merlant’s transcendent performance as a love-struck artist infatuated with her subject in Portrait of a Lady on Fire wowed critics and audiences alike, catapulting her to international acclaim.

OK, this one is weird. But unique. Jeanne (Noémie Merlant of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”), a withdrawn young woman who lives with her arrested-adolescent mom, starts working at an amusement park. One ...

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We have, in recent years, been made aware of an interesting phenomenon in which human beings develop unstoppable passions for physical objects. There was that woman who declared her love for the ...

Jumbo tells the same old story. Girl (Noémie Merlant) meets amusement park ride. Girl falls for amusement park ride. But will her mother approve? Inspired by the true story of a woman who married the ...

At heart, Zoé Wittock’s “Jumbo” is a rather conventional European dramedy about a single mother (the great Emmanuelle Bercot) struggling to accept the woman her daughter has become. On its surface, ...

You’ve heard of unlikely romances, but the star of “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” and an amusement park ride? That takes “unlikely” to a whole new level, but that’s also precisely the plot of Zoé ...

“Another day working as the nighttime janitor at the tiny French amusement park. Everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the Tilt-A-Whirl ride. Buddy, they won’t even let me fuck it.” This line ...