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‘The Reason I Jump’: Film Review | Sundance 2020
The Hollywood Reporter
“This is a wondrous work… that enlightens and informs but that is also ravishing to behold.” – Leslie Felperin
‘The Reason I Jump’: Film Review
Variety
“An inventive, sensuous documentary worthy of its source… This compassionate, creative documentary will open ears and eyes in equal measure. As emotionally piercing as it is beautiful to behold.” – Guy Lodge
‘The Reason I Jump’: Sundance Review
Screen Daily
“Exquisite. The Reason I Jump will change how you think. All aspects of this film deserve praise, each department wrapping itself around the considerable challenges of bringing such a complex adaptation to the screen.” – Fionnuala Halligan
Documentaries to discover at the BFI London Film Festival 2020
Little White Lies
“Using evocative sound design and soft-lensed photography, the film privileges the senses, looking to do its own act of translation by finding images to represent the words that bring interior worlds alive.” – Matt Turner
Sundance Review: The Reason I Jump is an Immersive, Poetic Look at Living with Nonverbal Autism
The Film Stage
“The Reason I Jump knows how to expand upon Higashida’s words, using its tools to distill the experience into pure human empathy. A profound and moving experience.” – John Fink
A Preview of the 56th Chicago International Film Festival
RogerEbert.com
“Jerry Rothwell’s deeply empathic adaptation of the memoir of 13-year-old author Naoki Higashida offers an immersive and visually impressive account as to what it is like to be a non-speaking autistic person using subjects from the U.S., Britain, India and Sierra Leone.” – Peter Sobczynski
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About the film
Based on the bestselling book by Naoki Higashida, THE REASON I JUMP is an immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity through the experiences of nonspeaking autistic people from around the world. The film blends Higashida’s revelatory descriptions of his autism, written when he was just 13, with intimate portraits of five remarkable young people. It opens a window into an intense and overwhelming, but often joyful, sensory universe, a rich tapestry that leads us to Naoki’s core message: not being able to speak does not mean there is nothing to say.