![]() Duris plays Colin, a wealthy inventor living in a blissful state of never-ending languor and whimsy, attended to by his friend, chef, lawyer, and manservant Nicolas (Omar Sy). Here, they’re lovers again, but without the more real-world complications. As on-again, off-again lovers in Cedric Klapisch’s L’Auberge Espagnole trilogy of films, they complemented each other nicely. Duris, however, is a more moody and intense actor. She, as we know from her appearances in Amélie and A Very Long Engagement, can be quite a fanciful presence. Plus, he’s got Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou as his leads. He’s adapting the cult novel L’Ecume des Jours by Boris Vian (which was translated into English as The Froth on the Daydream, which could be a good title for a book about Michel Gondry). Of course, this film isn’t exactly a case of Gondry being left to his own devices. Together they’ve created works of limitless soul and emotional fluidity. You might be tempted to assume that his work thrives when it’s matched with a countervailing intelligence - someone to temper his charming madness - but his best collaborators, people like Dave Chappelle, Charlie Kaufman and Jim Carrey, are as inventive and all over the place as Gondry himself. One imagines that if one cracked open Michel Gondry’s brain and looked inside, it would look a lot like Mood Indigo - an elaborate, endless clown-car of whirligig contraptions and unreal images, with little bursts of romantic melancholy peeking out here and there. ![]()
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