Jessica Forever

2018 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 54% · 13 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 23%
IMDb Rating 4.7/10 10 1067 1.1K

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Plot summary

Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.

Director

Caroline Poggi Photo
Caroline Poggi

Top cast

Aomi Muyock Photo
Aomi Muyock as Jessica
Jean-Marie Pittilloni Photo
Jean-Marie Pittilloni as Maxime
Ilyess Meftahi Photo
Ilyess Meftahi as Garçon de la fête 1
Florian Kiniffo Photo
Florian Kiniffo as Magic
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890.12 MB
1280*692
French 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 1
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 3

Movie Reviews

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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Reviewed by Blue-Grotto 6 / 10

Imaginative, Original and Refreshing

In a parallel universe of the not so distant future a lone young woman, Jessica, leads a band of male orphans rejected by the outside world for their violent tendencies. Her influence calms their will to create mayhem. Without Jessica these misfits are easy prey to the security forces who wish to eliminate them. Together they form a strike force protecting similarity situated male youth. With Jessica there is no blame, and all are free to leave. She searches for ways that the orphans can be happy again. "Bad things don't last forever," Jessica declares "we have to stop them from happening." Yet when one of the more vulnerable members of the group is killed, even Jessica struggles to contain their rage.

This original and refreshingly independent film contains attractive scenery, characters and actors, and wonderful ideas. Departed relatives reappear to talk to the living, there are night swims in the moonlight and the landscape seems to come alive to protect its residents. Given a better budget, organization and acting talent, this film could go somewhere. World premiere seen at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.

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