• The Book of Solutions, by Michel Gondry (in theaters September 13)
Michel Gondry had not shot for the cinema for eight years. Since Microbe and Gasoil, already very autobiographical film, inspired by his childhood memories. We have to go back eight years and the failure of L'Écume des joursto understand the genesis of the Book of Solutions. The big-budget adaptation of Boris Vian's novel was no fun for the author of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Be Nice, Rewind.
He evokes it in a barely filtered way in The Book of Solutions, an account of Gondry's escape with the rushes of the film in the Cevennes, at his aunt's house. His alter ego on screen, Marc (Pierre Niney, excellent), makes goat his editor (Blanche Gardin) and his assistant (Frankie Wallach), awakened in the middle of the night to listen to his most far-fetched ideas. The Book of Solutions, as funny as it is tragic, is as much a praise of creativity as a self-portrait without complacency...
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