Michel Gondry, who directed "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", is back in his fantasy romance genre with L'écume des jours, based on Boris Vian's best-selling novel of the same name. The film tells the story of the protagonist Colin (Audrey Tautou), accompanied by chef Nicolas and pet squirrel, who loves fashion, food and the music of Arthur Wellesley. Like a prince waiting for a princess until he meets the beautiful and pure Chloë (Audrey Tautou). They fall in love, and at their romantic wedding, they accept everyone's blessings, but while on their honeymoon, Chloë develops "water lily disease" - a water lily that invades her lungs. In order to heal his lover, Colin did everything he could, but a good love is just a bubble in life after all...
This is not a romantic comedy that everyone is happy with, but it does not hinder the director's wild imagination. The director of the film is Michel Gondry, a French director who has directed the fantasy romance films "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "The Science of Sleep" in recent years. After his short-lived commercial film "Green Hornet", he has returned to the fantasy with ease. theme works. There are many of his films soaring in the sky, walking underwater, and giving objects a humanized interpretation. These surreal expressions have become the labels of his films. People who like them flock to them, and people who don’t like them don’t know what to say. Maybe genius is only in in a moment.
Indigo Love: Walking in the Clouds with the Velvet Angel
The film's lead actor, Romain Duris, is one of the few groups to accidentally enter showbiz. One day, this handsome 19-year-old boy who was standing at the entrance of a middle school in Paris was discovered by a talent scout, and he became a rising star in the French film industry. Vibrant, charismatic, and somewhat unruly, his performances have won three Caesars, but have always missed. The Colin he played this time is the largest role in the entire film. At the beginning of the film, the carefree and rich Colin and the chef Nicolas are both servants and friends. They enjoy food and cook just for fun; they taste good wine, bartending is playing, and the cheerful rhythm is added with mint strawberries, Add some rum ice cubes to the gloomy mood; they are fashionable. Colin is dressed in an indigo blue suit and paired with a pair of white lace-up shoes. The bright colors and contrasting colors are just like Colin's mood at the moment. Carefree and cheerful. Until Colin threatened to talk about a pure and ordinary love.
Introduced by a friend, Colin met Chloë, a fresh and refined girl. Chloë, wearing a navy blue patchwork lace dress with her hair loose, sat in the crowd, her charming smile melting Colin's heart. Colin began a crazy pursuit of Chloë, they skated together, Chloë's red wool skirt, like a blooming rose on the ice; Colin took Chloë in the swan-decorated seat, led by a crane overlooking the whole of Paris, their Love is like the clouds in the sky, so beautiful that it does not eat the fireworks of the world. At this time, Colin has calmed down a lot. The three-piece light gray coarse-grained suit said goodbye to the indigo blue heartlessness. Chloë's simple and elegant apricot velvet dress made Colin's heart beat and couldn't help proposing to Chloë. Chloë reveals Audrey Tautou's elf-like shy smile that captivates the world, as if bringing us back to the innocence of Amelie.
The reality of gray and blue: it is hard to be sad with flowers
The two entered the auditorium with the blessing of the crowd. Chloë was dressed in lace white gauze, with a little playfulness in her holiness, and a hint of cuteness in her dignity. They exchanged vows in the church, and their happiness is like walking underwater, so light that there is no gravity. They set off on their honeymoon in a crystal-length Lincoln, just as the prince and princess were about to live happily ever after. Chloë, however, contracted a strange disease. A water lily seed that she occasionally inhaled took root in her lungs, and she had to be surrounded by flowers to prevent the disease from getting worse. The huge medical expenses made Colin lose his family property, but in the end he couldn't keep the "angel" from leaving. At this time, Colin was poor and sad, and he could only pay attention to Chloë's lover. In the bone-chilling cold, only the blue blanket was left to wrap the once young and frivolous. Unlike the high-spirited indigo all over the body before, to the gray-blue indifference now, just like the author wants to convey to us, no matter how long or short life is, it is always but a bubble. The firmest love is no match for fate, and the richest person is no match for accident.
Although it is a poignant and dark fairy tale, from indigo to gray-blue, at least we have loved it and paid for it sincerely, whether it is foam or illusory, the indigo suit is bright and beautiful, but only the gray-blue blanket draped over the body. It is the caring thing that understands the owner best.
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