That we’re watching John Lithgow go on about oral sex and Olivia Colman chatting about polyamory with her teenage child make the film that much odder.

Deadline's Baz Bamigboye writes that John Lithgow is extraordinary as he bares his soul in ‘Jimpa,’ which opened the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Sundance: Colman plays a filmmaker struggling to reconcile her resentment toward her gay father in Sophie Hyde's thinly rendered portrait of generational divides.

Olivia Colman and John Lithgow can only carry Sophie Hyde's well-intentioned semi-autobiographical Sundance drama 'Jimpa' so far

EXCLUSIVE: Sundance prize-winning filmmaker Sophie Hyde (52 Tuesdays, Animals, Good Luck to You Leo Grand) says casting "a version of yourself" is not an easy task. "It's very tricky to do," says Hyde,

How do you capture a life? After all, there is nothing more breathtakingly vast than an existence full of joy, pain, pleasure and agony. Doing so is an immense undertaking that requires honesty and care in equal measure as we must look deeply at someone to expose all of what made them who they are without also hiding all of what can be many rough edges.