Spirit of Ecstasy (2023)

Spirit of Ecstasy (2023). 1h 38m

“Jeanne lives a bifurcated life.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAt home, she is the eldest of 3 children in a single-parent family. Their father is a police officer who needs his overtime work to make ends meet, so she often ends up playing the u0026quot;motheru0026quot; role in the family. It gets complicated when her ex-boyfriend returns after a 4-year assignment away with the army, expecting to resume their relationship. But she has had a bad sexual encounter with him, and has been ghosting him all this time.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eProfessionally, she dreams of being in the world of high finance – investment banking or hedge funds – despite the fact that she is mostly self-taught. Trying to become a quantitative analyst (or u0026quot;quantu0026quot;), she binds her breasts and wears a manu0026#39;s suit, while still using her female name. By spotting an error in computer code, she parlays her role as an intern into such a job, and even gets an offer for a quant job in Singapore, which causes tensions within the family.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe Spirit of Ecstasy is the hood ornament seem in the car her boss rides in, and which she later emulates, posing out of the sunroof of a moving car.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI saw this at the Toronto International Film Festival, where the 1st-time lead actress mentioned that she spent a year rehearsing and researching the world of finance. She did a decent job, and the soundscapes were good. However, I have problems with the script. I had trouble with both the overall arc of the story, and also some specific scenes. As such, it was not worth my battling with the subtitles.”