Mood Indigo Reviews

To be honest, when I heard about this movie,  I had some rather mixed feelings. Indeed, on one hand, when I was much younger, I did read 'L'écume  des jours' but even though it is a huge classic in France, I didn't really care much for the damned thing and, from the same writer, I preferred the much darker 'J'irai cracher sur vos tombes' which is one of my favorite books. On the other hand, Michel Gondry is one of the most interesting directors at work nowadays so I was still eager to check it out. Well, eventually, it turned out to be one of the weirdest and craziest movies I have ever seen. Unfortunately, even though it might sound like a compliment, the weirdness never really stopped in this movie and it was so relentless that it became almost unbearable to watch. Even the dialogues were almost impossible to follow which was pretty weird since I'm French. I understand that it must have been a huge challenge for Gondry to create this manic  world but, even though it would be awesome for a videoclip (after all, Gondry became famous for his really inventive videoclips), to sit for more than 2 hours watching all this surrealist stuff was just too much for me and the damned thing was just really exhausting. Anyway, to conclude, I still give it a few extra points for being really original and visually impressive and I still think it is worth a look but if you don't care about experimental movies, you should probably avoid this one.