Olivia Colman is back on our screens next week as family drama Jimpa lands on digital platforms in the UK. To mark the upcoming release, we have an exclusive clip from the movie that you can watch right now above.
Inspired by director and co-writer Sophie Hyde’s own life, the new movie sees Colman play filmmaker Hannah who travels to Amsterdam with her non-binary teenager Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to reconnect with her gay father Jim (John Lithgow), lovingly known as “Jimpa”.
When Frances announces they want to stay in Amsterdam with Jimpa, Hannah is forced to confront old tensions as she reckons with Frances’s growing independence, as well as the movie she’s writing about her parents’ non-confrontational divorce in the 1980s.
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Our exclusive clip from Jimpa sees Hannah talk to the actor (played by American Horror Story star Cody Fern) playing her father in Hannah’s movie, with the filmmaker getting increasingly annoyed by his very personal questions about her past.
If you want to see the rest, Jimpa is released on digital platforms by Signature Entertainment on Monday 11 May. You can currently pre-order it on AppleTV to be able to watch it as soon as it’s released.
Following its world premiere at Sundance last year, the movie was praised as “honest, bittersweet and true” by TheWrap, who added: “It earns every emotion and then some, breaking the heart open with such breathtaking truthfulness that you get bowled over just before you land softly in its final frames.”
Screen International added: “Led by layered performances from Olivia Colman and John Lithgow, Hyde’s fifth feature is an affectionate, perceptive observation about the quiet difficulties of family.”
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In the press notes for Jimpa, Hyde praised the performance of Colman in the movie, saying it was a “dream come true” for her to be in the movie. “Olivia is incredible; she’s so warm and she’s so emotionally present all the time,” Hyde continued.
“As a character, Hannah has a kind of restraint. But we needed an actor to bring a huge amount of warmth into that as a mother navigating the views shared between her child and her parent, and to navigate that with an emotional power.
“Olivia just surprises you every moment that she’s on screen.”
Jimpa is released on digital platforms on 11 May.
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