![]() When the tale takes a tragic turn, one could not care less. Even their wedding is a joke, a 'race' to the altar (against Chick and Alise) in amusement park cars. But while Gondry settles down for stretches, Duris and Tautou remain so much window dressing. The screen bursts with so much visual information, one begins to feel weary from the start. "Mood Indigo" plays like the creation of Wes Anderson by way of Terry Gilliam with the emotional gravitas of Pee Wee Herman. In adapting Boris Vian's novel, Gondry fills the screen with imaginative visuals - stop motion animation, a cloud vehicle, a picnic in a plexiglass limo - but the story of a man losing everything to save his wife lacks resonance. Since then, his brand of retro fantasy hasn't worn well. At a party, he's awkward meeting Chloé (Audrey Tautou, "Amélie"), but the two get married quickly only to discover a water lily has implanted itself in her lung in "Mood Indigo." Cowriter (with Luc Bossi)/director Michel Gondry ("Be Kind Rewind") came onto the scene directing "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," which he cowrote with Charlie Kaufman. His friend Chick (Gad Elmaleh, "Capital") stops by to sample a cocktail devised by the notes played on a piano and when Colin learns he's scooped up Nicolas's niece Alise (Aïssa Maïga, "Caché"), Colin wants a girlfriend of his own. As we see his story being turned out by rows of typists picking up where another left off on machines moving down rails, Colin (Romain Duris, "Populaire") is in his quirky abode, where servant bells scuttle about like insects and his cook Nicolas (Omar Sy, "The Intouchables") battles eels coming out of kitchen faucets.
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