Jimpa review: Does Sundances buzzed-about queer family drama live up to the hype?

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Olivia Coleman and John Lithgow appear in Jimpa by Sophie Hyde , an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Directed and co-written by Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’s Sophie Hyde, Jimpa is a tale of wish fulfillment on multiple levels — often to its detriment. The first level is its plot, which follows an Australian filmmaker, Hannah (Olivia Colman), taking her nonbinary teenager Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to visit her idiosyncratic gay father, Jim (John Lithgow), in Amsterdam, as she begins work on a movie that idealizes her family's past.

The second level is the film's own making. Hannah is a stand-in for Hyde, whose own child, Mason-Hyde, makes their onscree...

Source: https://mashable.com/article/jimpa-review

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