The filmmaker at the center of Michel Gondry’s new feature is in a love-hate relationship with his latest project. To protect the work in progress from the studio executives who have just fired him, he absconds to the country with the four-hour cut, his faithful editor and assistant in tow. And then he can’t bear to look at the footage, and gets busy with one tangential undertaking after another. The depiction of procrastination as an essential part of the creative process is one of the delights of The Book of Solutions (Le Livre des solutions), but on the way to its mildly satisfying final punchline, this uneven comedy loses its thread.
Drawing loosely upon Gondry’s postproduction escape from producers when he was making Mood Indigo, his first movie since the 2015 charmer Microbe & Gasoline is a portrait of the director as a gifted man-child. Central character Marc Becker is inspired,...
Drawing loosely upon Gondry’s postproduction escape from producers when he was making Mood Indigo, his first movie since the 2015 charmer Microbe & Gasoline is a portrait of the director as a gifted man-child. Central character Marc Becker is inspired,...
- 5/21/2023
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
COLOGNE, Germany -- Philippe Garrel's Nouvelle Vague tribute Les Amants Reguliers (Regular Lovers) has secured the European Film Academy's Fipresci (film critics) award, while Pierre Pell and Stephane Rozenbaum won the award for artistic contribution for their design of Michel Gondry's The Science Of Sleep, the EFA said Tuesday.
Garrel's Reguliers already has picked up several awards, including a Silver Lion in Venice as well as a best actor Cesar for the film's star (and the director's son) Louis Garrel.
A black-and-white feature partly set during the student riots in Paris in 1968, Regular Lovers is a throwback to an earlier age of French cinema.
Calling Garrel the "younger brother of (Jean-Luc) Godard," Fipresci president Andrei Plakhov praised Les Amants Reguliers for its "sophisticated cinematographic style ... (Garrel's) films are like fake detective stories, where mystery lies, not in the plot but in the style."
The inaugural EFA artistic contribution award went to the production team behind the cardboard dreamscapes and robotic toy horses in Gondry's whimsical The Science of Sleep.
The prizes will be presented Dec.
Garrel's Reguliers already has picked up several awards, including a Silver Lion in Venice as well as a best actor Cesar for the film's star (and the director's son) Louis Garrel.
A black-and-white feature partly set during the student riots in Paris in 1968, Regular Lovers is a throwback to an earlier age of French cinema.
Calling Garrel the "younger brother of (Jean-Luc) Godard," Fipresci president Andrei Plakhov praised Les Amants Reguliers for its "sophisticated cinematographic style ... (Garrel's) films are like fake detective stories, where mystery lies, not in the plot but in the style."
The inaugural EFA artistic contribution award went to the production team behind the cardboard dreamscapes and robotic toy horses in Gondry's whimsical The Science of Sleep.
The prizes will be presented Dec.
- 11/28/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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