![]() ![]() It eventually leads to marriage, but it’s all short-lived as life finally takes a darker turn for our four friends. ![]() Their blissful courtship is a swirl of happy frolicking in a world that seems devoid of even the most basic natural laws. But when Chick begins a relationship with a woman named Alise (Aissa Maiga), Colin realizes he wants the same and quickly meets and falls for Chloe (Audrey Tautou of Amelie). A wealthy young man named Colin (Romain Duris) leads a life of ease, eating meals prepared by loyal cook and valet Nicolas (Omar Sy), hanging around with buddy Chick (Gal Elmaleh) and working on his invention, the pianocktail (yes, a piano that makes cocktails). Mood Indigo is based on a 1947 French novel by Boris Vian called Froth on the Daydream and is faithful to much of its narrative. Many of the images are inventive enough to keep one’s attention, but can the story and characters do the same? In fact, the film is sort of “Gondry off the leash,” if such a thing could exist: it’s stuffed with so much surrealism and visual whimsy that it threatens to overload the viewer with just how busy and utterly untethered to reality it is. ![]() You don’t go to a Michel Gondry film expecting the conventional, and the director’s latest fantasia, Mood Indigo, won’t let you down in that regard. ![]()
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