I mean-I don’t want to push you to use drugs. No, it was clear I didn’t need to after it started. I couldn’t think of an actor from this generation who I’d like to work with, so I went a little older and went with Audrey and Romain because I felt they were great actors and they didn’t have these image issues I see in younger actors. I mean, I guess it’s because when they come into film and acting they look at themselves too much in the mirror. There are these actors, very young, in their early 20s in French theater, who have this thing where they are a little bit-or very-self-centered. The characters are younger in the book than in your film, right?

It's complicated because I made it the way I imagined it, and I understand that other people had imagined it differently. Some people find it like they imagined, and other people had a different idea, so they feel it’s intrusive to the imagination. How do you think the people who read the book as children will feel about the film? Yes, there have been adaptations, but they were not very big or famous. Like, everybody.Īnd there have been adaptations of it in the past, right? Yeah, that’s one of the difficult things about doing this adaptation from French, because it’s not like a book that very few people know about, or have read. Michel Gondry: I’m going to discourage you from starting by asking me questions about the book.Įveryone reads it in France as a teenager? VICE: So, you’ve had a lot of questions about the book?

After about 20 minutes, Audrey Tautou let herself into the room, plopped down on the bed between us, and joined the conversation. I met with Michel at a hotel in SoHo, New York, last week. But what else do you expect from the guy who made Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? Still, the two are charmingly swept off their feet by a magical cloud car, and proceed on a date that feels more like an acid trip. The couple meet for their first date in one of Paris’s ugliest sins, Le Forum Des Halles: a shopping mall-construction site in the center of town that’s been in the works for decades. Plagued by an illness which requires Chloé to be constantly surrounded by fresh flowers, Colin must take up employment as a gun maker which requires him to constantly lay around with his dick pressed into a mound of dirt-because that’s where guns come from (duh). She pairs with Colin (played by Romain Duris), a pretty, do-nothing-rich-kid working on a needlessly French invention: a piano that mixes different drinks based on the notes played. In the film, which premiered last Friday, Chloé is the subject of a trippy enchanted romance.

Mood Indigo by Boris Vian