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Starring: Audrey Tatou, Romain Duris, Kelly Reilly, Cecile de France
Director: Cedric Klapish
Running Time: 116 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: June 20th 2014 (UK)

After Pot Luck and Russian Dolls comes the third part in Cedric Klapish’s light comedy of modern life and romance. The setting is different again, now we are in New York (after Barcelona and St Petersburg), but the characters are the same – older, not much wiser and terrified of approaching the dreaded 40.

Romain Duris and Kelly Reilly, the apparently golden couple, have split. She has met a bland millionaire in New York and leaves him, taking their two young kids with them. Devastated, he follows, determined to keep in touch with his offspring but with little prospects. He does have some help though, in the form of Cecile de France, his lesbian pal who he has helped get pregnant, and who is living in Brooklyn with her partner. He also has a flying visit from Audrey Tatou, who is determined to throw aside her stuffy past and become a go-getter, and has a business meeting in Manhattan with a Chinese company to broker a huge deal. [Read more…]

Michel Gondry is certainly a filmmaker who likes to chart his own course, making documentaries, music videos, commercials, and movies such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Be Kind Rewind and The Green Hornet. For Mood Indigo he’s gone back to his native france and teamed up with Audrey Tatou for a rather unusual romance.

The trailer (which is in French with no subtitles) shows us a rather surreal movie, with plenty of unsual dreamy sequences. Mood Indigo is about a young couple (Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou) whose marriage is complicated by the woman’s unusual illness. The problem is that she has a water lily in her lung, and the only treatment is to surround her constantly with fresh flowers! He meanwhile is the inventor of an olfactory-musical device called the pianocktail.

While it could be great it’s a premise that might also be too quirky for its own good. Hopefully it’ll be released in the UK later this year, so we’ll get to find out.

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