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Mood Indigo

Romain Duris

Audrey Tautou

Gad Elmaleh

Omar Sy

Aïssa Maïga

Charlotte Le Bon

Sacha Bourdo

Philippe Torreton

Vincent Rottiers

Laurent Lafitte

Natacha Régnier

Zinedine Soualem

Alain Chabat

Marina Rozenman

Wilfred Benaïche

Tilly Scott Pedersen

Kid Creole

Laura Cieplik

Joana Morais

Boris Vian

Michel Gondry

Florence Fontaine

Xavier Castano

Stéphane Rozenbaum

Étienne Charry

Luc Bossi

Christophe Beaucarne

Gilles Castera

Marie-Charlotte Moreau

Emmanuel Pitois

Fabrice Delville

Olivier Afonso

Geneviève Lemal

Pierre Mertens

Nicolas Herlin

Franco Piscopo

Jaime Mateus-Tique

Frédérique Ney

Yohann Angelvy

Jane Milon

Arlette Zylberberg

Frédéric Lainé

Guillaume Le Braz

Grégory Vincent

Alain-Gilles Viellevoye

Marion Chevance

Damien Aubry

Benoît Biral

Paul McCartney

Lucía Bretones-Méndez

Pierre Renson

Raphaël Mouterde

Guillaume Castagné

Marie-France Michel

Rémi Canaple

Eric Montchaud

Timothée Lemoine

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There's a scene in this film where a naked "Colin" (Romain Duris) is paid then sort of folded over a large pile of mud so his body can insulate and help the snails to breed! That might give you an idea as to the surreality of this comedic drama. He is a wealthy man with a pair of white leather brogues who, quite literally, have a life of their own. He lives in what looks like a converted, luxury, railway carriage together with his factotum "Nicolas" (Omar Sy) and a recently poached girlfriend "Chloé" (Audrey Tautou) who is dying of a rather peculiar disease involving her lungs and a flower. Desperate to save her, he discovers that the only way to do that is to keep her permanently surrounded by other fresh flowers - and so following the philosophy of his mentor "Jean-Sol Partre" he takes us on some daft adventures with animate gadgets and gizmos - some with human or animal characteristics that wouldn't have looked out of place in "City of Lost Children" (1995). I wasn't familiar with Boris Vian's original novel, but I did enjoy this engagingly fantastic adaptation by Michel Gondry and the chemistry between Duris and Tautou is enjoyable to watch as the story takes it's own sweet time to make any headway - in any sort of traditional sense. It's helped along enormously by the quirky score from Étienne Charry and the production looks like a great deal of thought has gone in to making it quite so eccentrically haphazard. I found the story itself less important than the characterisations and I'm usually a fan of Duris - so wasn't disappointed. It's not for everyone, but I liked (most of) it.

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