Credit here to the director and the cast with their commitment to following through on this premiss and its relatively happy conclusion.

Definite echoes of Under The Skin at times and presumably allegorical with pleas for acceptance - really enjoyable.

Credits start with inspired by a true story, but never explained what was the "true" part. But, in special features it's explained that one inspiration is about people who fall in love with inanimate objects. Anyway, a young woman possibly with a developmental disorder or more likely Objectophilia (in many cases results in marriage) falls in love with an amusement park ride. A question for the viewer is what are the boundaries of love. Does she fantasize a personal bond or does the ride have a human level consciousness?

Jeanne is a withdrawn and shy woman who works in an amusement park, yet has not yet come to terms with being an adult. Has she been in love before? Does she have plans of leaving the home of her mother? And why is she so fascinated by lights and carousels?

However, she soon falls in love with a newcomer to her place of work. Spoilers on, but in case you didn't guess, she falls in love with Jumbo, the new ride at the park.

Remember when that dude wanted to sleep with Airwolf? Yeah, that's a real thing. Objectophilia is when you go beyond simply enjoying objects and begin to have deep attachments to them. The kind of attachment that makes you want to make love to them. I mean, if you clean a ride and it begins to make sounds and blink, obviously it is returning your affections.

This is one of those movies that asks that you make this narrative leap with the film. Can you accept the love between human and object? If so, then you'll be rewarded by what follows. And if not, well, maybe a more traditional love story is something you should watch.

Jumbo attempts to explain why Jeanne feels the way she does. But can any of us really explain love? Why does the heart want what the heart wants, even if it's to lick the oil of our lover off the floor and communicate in beeps and lights? Maybe those noises and colors are a closer tie than most of our inter-human coupling have anyways.

So yeah, when Jeanne's mom Margarette wants her to find a really nice guy, maybe she didn't consider that a Tilt-A-Whirl would be that man. Guess who's coming to dinner? Hope you like food on a stick, I guess.

This is writer/director Zoé Wittock's first full-length feature. I feel that this has enough ideas to work as a short, but you can't fault that she went for it. Here's hoping for more bright lights and beeps in her future.