Advantages: Genuine characters; great hand-made artifacts and animation Disadvantages: Some will find the plot weak
...go. Half an hour into the film, however, I was on the point of switching it off. For some reason I stayed with it and was eventually glad that I had.
Stephane Miroux (Gael Garcia Bernal) has just returned to Paris from Mexico following his father's death. A creative artist, he has, thanks to his Parisian mother (Miou Miou), landed a job with a company that makes calendars. Stephane discovers on his first morning that the job merely involves typesetting ... ...carry a piano up to the flat next to his where Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is moving in. He injures his hand in the process and has it bandaged by Stephanie's friend Zoe (Emma de Caunes). Stephane initially appears to be attracted to Zoe, but the similarity in their names hints that the real attraction may turn out to be between Stephane and Stephanie. Things do not run smoothly, however, and neither side is ready to reveal their true self: ...
denella 23.12.2008
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Advantages: A strong visual style and an intense central performance. Disadvantages: A lack of plot.
...after Stéphanie, who lives across the stairwell from him. She is initially charmed by his eccentricities, but is confused and hurt by his constant childishness and tenuous grip on reality.
Former pop promo director and helmer of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", Frenchman Michel Gondry is primarily known for his quirky visual style. It is very much in evidence in this particularly odd little film; in fact it entirely overwhelms the production. ... ...gives an old-fashioned atmosphere to the movie, as does Stéphane's anachronistic wardrobe that makes the whole thing feel like it was shot in the 70s. The film is populated by strange living machines and backgrounds made of fabric or coloured cellophane and cotton wool. The entire production feels like an experiment in style that seeks to delight the audience with its whimsical wanderings through the psyche. So it begins in the corrugated cardboard ...
afy9mab 11.09.2007
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