The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director heads back to France for Mood Indigo , a tragic romance that will test your tolerance for quirkiness.
Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou in Mood Indigo.
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It's been 10 years since Michel Gondry made Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the millennium's most bittersweetly romantic film. The reverse love story of Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) is still the best thing the French filmmaker's done, combining the ebullient inventiveness of his music videos, which turned the White Stripes into Legos and Björk into a truck driver, with inescapable emotional maturity, and injecting unlikely magic into a prosaic Long Island suburb.
Since then, Gondry's made a good-natured concert doc with Dave Chappelle (2005's Block Party), an awkward superhero flick (2011's The Green Hornet), and a set of increasingly quirky movies that suggest he's burrowing further and further into his singular imagination. His latest work, Mood Indigo, which opens in New York and L.A. this Friday (and more cities in the weeks after), is a surreal romance so cluttered with whimsical touches you have to stare at it for a while in order for the narrative to actually emerge, like a Magic Eye image. It's a sad tale underneath the trimmings, but the way it's told is half bewitching and half maddening, so enraptured with its cleverness and artistry that it's sometimes unintelligible.
Romain Duris and Gad Elmaleh try out the pianocktail
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