Romain Duris

Audrey Tautou

Gad Elmaleh

Omar Sy

Aïssa Maïga

Charlotte Le Bon

Sacha Bourdo

Philippe Torreton

Vincent Rottiers

Laurent Lafitte

Natacha Régnier

Zinedine Soualem

Alain Chabat

Marina Rozenman

Wilfred Benaïche

Tilly Scott Pedersen

Kid Creole

Laura Cieplik

Joana Morais

Étienne Charry

Stéphane Rozenbaum

Marie-Charlotte Moreau

Luc Bossi

Christophe Beaucarne

Gilles Castera

Michel Gondry

Xavier Castano

Boris Vian

Florence Fontaine

Pierre Renson

Geneviève Lemal

Marion Chevance

Alain-Gilles Viellevoye

Benoît Biral

Franco Piscopo

Guillaume Le Braz

Frédérique Ney

Arlette Zylberberg

Pierre Mertens

Fabrice Delville

Yohann Angelvy

Grégory Vincent

Rémi Canaple

Olivier Afonso

Guillaume Castagné

Marie-France Michel

Lucía Bretones-Méndez

Nicolas Herlin

Frédéric Lainé

Jane Milon

Raphaël Mouterde

Paul McCartney

Jaime Mateus-Tique

Emmanuel Pitois

Damien Aubry

Drama

Fantasy

L'Écume des jours

Brio Films

SCOPE Invest

SCOPE Pictures

StudioCanal

Anton Capital Entertainment

France 2 Cinéma

Canal+

Ciné+

France Télévisions

Hérodiade

Eurimages

Belgium

France

United Kingdom

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There's a scene in this film where a naked "Colin" (Romain Duris) is paid then sort of folded over a large pile of mud so his body can insulate and help the snails to breed! That might give you an idea as to the surreality of this comedic drama. He is a wealthy man with a pair of white leather brogues who, quite literally, have a life of their own. He lives in what looks like a converted, luxury, railway carriage together with his factotum "Nicolas" (Omar Sy) and a recently poached girlfriend "Chloé" (Audrey Tautou) who is dying of a rather peculiar disease involving her lungs and a flower. Desperate to save her, he discovers that the only way to do that is to keep her permanently surrounded by other fresh flowers - and so following the philosophy of his mentor "Jean-Sol Partre" he takes us on some daft adventures with animate gadgets and gizmos - some with human or animal characteristics that wouldn't have looked out of place in "City of Lost Children" (1995). I wasn't familiar with Boris Vian's original novel, but I did enjoy this engagingly fantastic adaptation by Michel Gondry and the chemistry between Duris and Tautou is enjoyable to watch as the story takes it's own sweet time to make any headway - in any sort of traditional sense. It's helped along enormously by the quirky score from Étienne Charry and the production looks like a great deal of thought has gone in to making it quite so eccentrically haphazard. I found the story itself less important than the characterisations and I'm usually a fan of Duris - so wasn't disappointed. It's not for everyone, but I liked (most of) it.

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Mood Indigo

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