We handsome Knee (Romain Duris) has everything: money, a lot of free time each (Gad Elmaleh), adoring Jean-Sol Partry, and even personal chef (Omar Sy), catching eels for dinner of traditional taps. Everything except a girlfriend. But as soon as the knee to go to the party, as he has a girl. Chloe (Audrey Tautou) loves the knee. Chloe loves her knees. They would live happily ever let fly a mechanical clouds in his surreal world, that's just Chloe suddenly struck no less surreal disease. In her right lung grows deadly lily.
Boris Vian novel "Mood Indigo" filmed twice. Make a movie out of the book even tried Japanese Guo Ridzyu. However, to say that "Mood Indigo" Viana and director Michel Gondry were made for each other - to say nothing. This is truly an amazing symbiosis: what is lacking one, adds another and vice versa. When you do not have the imagination to build all this slozhnosochinennye vianovskuyu universe in mind, reading a book, watch intrudes on visionary Gondry, imagination and engineering skills which, perhaps, enough for a few more such Vian. And when the visual images is enough, in his pocket for a word, or rather, a game of words, have yet to climb to Vian. For the first time or do not want to consider the book and the film separately, nor to compare. They are so fused bodies that divide them like surgery on conjoined twins.
However, partly dekadanskoe work of Boris Vian in Gondry takes on other dyes. His "Mood Indigo" is also sad, but at the same time, ironic, funny, very touching and, above all, love. Not the last role was played by Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris. The eye contact that escapes in the novel, the film is filled with so sensitively and sincerely that the viewer himself is able to fall in love with Chloe and knee. And looking at the heroine Audrey Tautou not impossible to get rid of Amelie Poulain nostalgia. Although "Pene days" all, of course, different.
In Gondry "Foam" - is directing the Rubik's cube, filled with complex mechanisms and manual stop-Motion, form, devoid of moralizing and feigned psychology. And collect the blocks by color planes not necessarily. Important process. What is important is how skillfully can be played on the theater of the absurd. That is why you probably have not resourceful director turned movie clip and a length of 2 hours to break away from that is almost impossible, even if difficult to logically explain what is happening in the picture. It already costs surrealist Viana, and, perhaps, a favorite singer Bjork clipmaker Gondry. But summing up costs, it is possible to obtain a bright piece of art.