"Be Kind Rewind" - 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 English with German and French subtitles.

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Tonight's movie: Be Kind Rewind is a 2008 buddy comedy film written and directed by Michel Gondry and starring Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover, Mia Farrow, and Melonie Diaz.

Interesting fact 1: The title is inspired by a phrase that was commonly displayed on video rental cassettes in America during the medium's heyday.

The film first appeared at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and later shown at the Berlin International Film Festival. A reviewer at The New York Times called the film "inviting, undemanding and altogether wonderful" and added that "you'll want to see it again, or at least Swede it yourself."

Interesting fact 2: Films that were erased and recreated are referred to as having been sweded. These remakes are unedited with only a single take per scene. The tapes are described as having come from Sweden as an excuse for higher rental fees and longer wait times. In this film Jerry fabricates the word "sweded" while arguing with Craig (Chandler Parker) and his gang.

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.