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Sundance Film Festival 2025: Day 1 capsules
Jimpa, SLY LIVES!, Twinless, By Design, Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, The Dating Game
Jimpa **1/2 [Premieres] Early in writer/director Sophie Hyde's feature, Australian filmmaker Hannah (Oliva Colman) tries to pitch her latest idea to potential financers, saying she wants to do a story that's about kindness, not conflict. It's a pretty bold up-front statement for what Hyde is attempting here, and I'm guessing it will work for some viewers—I'm just not one of them.
The narrative focuses on Hannah's trip to Amsterdam with her non-binary child Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde, the filmmaker's own child) to visit Hannah's father Jim (John Lithgow), a veteran gay activist, with Frances…
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