"L'épine dans le Coeur" - Michel Gondry, film retrospective

Kino Rex is having a retrospective of Michel Gondry films, mostly as director but sometimes as screenwriter or on screen himself.

For details see: https://rexbern.ch/filmreihen/michel-gondry-handgemachte-traumwelten

Meeting time allows us 15 minutes before the film starts to meet up - please be on time so we can get seats together. In French with English subtitles.

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Tonight's movie: L'Epine dans le Coeur (English title The Thorn in the Heart) is a 2009 French documentary film directed by Michel Gondry. It was given a special screening at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

The film is a documentary look at the director's family at home in the Cévennes, particularly his aunt Suzette.

About Michel Gondry, from Wikipedia:
Michel Gondry started out directing numerous music videos, including Björk's "Human Behaviour" in 1993 and "Bachelorette" in 1997, both of which earned him nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Music Video; he also directed several videos for The White Stripes. He is also a record producer, most notably producing several tracks for American rapper and illustrator MC Paul Barman on his album Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud (2009).
NOTE: check out You Tube for the many, many music videos he directed!

As a filmmaker and producer, Gondry is noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scène.