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Mood Indigo
Why this pick
Gondry again turns handmade inventions and elastic dream logic into a tender, melancholy romance, with a similarly playful visual world that gradually exposes emotional fragility.
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MOVIE2006 1h 45m FRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Stéphane Miroux is a man whose vivid dreams and imagination often interfere with his ability to interact with reality. He is coaxed back to his childhood home after his divorced father passes away and his mother, Christine, finds him a job in a calendar printing company in France. His mother implies the position is a creative role, and he prepares colourful drawings, each showing a disaster, for his "disasterology" calendar. However, nobody appreciates his talents and it transpires that his mother had led him on - the real vacancy is for nothing more than mundane typesetting Wage labour. While leaving his apartment to go to work one day, Stéphane injures his hand helping his new neighbor move a piano into her apartment. The new neighbor, Stéphanie, invites Stéphane into her apartment (unaware that he lives next door) where her friend Zoé tends to his wound. Stéphane initially forms an attraction to Zoé, though he suspects it is instead Stéphanie who likes him.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Gael García Bernal
Stéphane Miroux
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Stéphanie
Alain Chabat
Guy
Emma de Caunes
Zoé
Pierre Vaneck
Mr. Pouchet
Miou-Miou
Christine Miroux