Writer/Director Michel
Gondry’s Mood Indigo is a bizarre fantasy about a rich man (Romain
Duris), who lives…we know not why and, eventually, don’t care…in a surreal
world where a large team of minions service him and machines have a life of
their own.
He meets a woman (Audrey
Tautou), they fall in love, she gets sick on their honeymoon (a flower grows in
her lung), he spends all his fortune on trying to cure her and she dies,
leaving him penniless.
You see, there is a story
buried in all the absurdist contraptions and, sometimes, rewardingly beautiful
images provided by Cinematographer Christophe Beaucarne.
But, the person who had
the real fun in this production must have been the Production Designer Stéphane
Rosenbaum, who was given the budget to create all the fantastical machines and
decors.
It’s because of Stéphane that
I give Mood Indigo at least a 2+ out of 5.
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