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The We and the I - new Michel Gondry film

  • 16-05-2012 10:48pm
    #1
    johnny_ultimate
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    So after a few questionable sojourns into bigger budgets, Michel Gondry is back in small-scale indie territory with... a film that appears to be set entirely on a bus.

    Here's a vimeo trailer, because youtube is too mainstream. Or something.

    http://vimeo.com/42196182

    Hard to know what to make of this. Definitely minus the whimsy we've come to expect from the man. Perhaps that's the point. The rumour and speculation mill has it that
    there are sci-fi elements to the film
    , but the trailer doesn't really leave much space for that theory.

    A step back in the right direction, or further away again from the Gondry we know and love? Only release date will tell


Comments

  • #2
    Technocentral
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    His music promos (Daft Punk, Massive Attack and Chemical Bros.) were great, but even his "indie" films especially Eternal Sunshine..... and The Science of Sleep were bloody awful, his quirky offbeat style was much better suited to 3 or 4 min stuff without dialogue.


  • #3
    johnny_ultimate
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    Technocentral wrote: »
    Eternal Sunshine..... bloody awful

    If by bloody awful you mean the American film of a decade - sure!


  • #4
    Technocentral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    If by bloody awful you mean the American film of a decade - sure!

    His visuals are great, but dialogue, scenarios and character interaction are cringe worthy in his features, thats why I prefer his promos. I didn't know it was rated that highly btw, I can't remember them all off hand but here's five much superior contenders off the top of my head for film of the 2000 - 2010 decade to start with: There Will Be Blood, The Pianist, Pan's Labyrinth, United 93 and Lost in Translation.


  • #5
    johnny_ultimate
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    Well Charlie Kaufman wrote Eternal Sunshine, so you'll have to take umbrage with him on some of your points. But to me it's structural genius, brutally honest, brilliantly realised (visually, editing, everything), stunningly acted and emotionally involving from beginning to end. Sure the whole 'best of a decade' is subjective, and yes LiT and TWBB are strong contenders (don't agree the middle three are, but that's just me). But only a small handful of films are so purely cinematic as ESOTSM, and so few have anywhere near the ambition & scope: dismantling a genre, but never forgetting about the characters, central concepts or audience.

    I would be less inclined to defend Science of Sleep, even though I really like it. It's much more whimsical, peculiar and idiosyncratic and is a deserved audience divider. Still, would love to see him return to his trademark style. No hints of that in the trailer here. Difference is good, but this did little to sell itself to me, the vintage Gondry fan.


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