"L'écume des jours" - 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 German subtitles.

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Tonight's movie: L'écume des jours (English title Mood Indigo) is a 2013 French surrealistic romantic science fantasy tragedy film co-written and directed by Michel Gondry and co-written and produced by Luc Bossi, starring Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou. It is an adaptation of Boris Vian's 1947 novel with the same French title, translated to Froth on the Daydream in English.

Info: The film received two nominations at the 4th Magritte Awards. It also received three nominations at the 39th César Awards, winning in one category.

The critical consensus is: Mood Indigo is far from Michel Gondry's most compelling work, but it doesn't skimp on the visual whimsy and heartfelt emotion fans have come to expect.

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.