Saw this movie last night. It was a real charming gem of a film. I adore anything remotely surrealist, and that explains why Buñuel and Medem are among my favorite filmmakers (I love Miró's and Dalí's artwork as well). Michel Gondry is now one of my new favorite directors (he did Eternal Sunshine a few years back), and this movie has now secured a slot in my desert-island top films list.
Gael's character and myself are very much alike, in many respects (except the artistic part...I can't draw to save my life), but the fact that we are both big narcoleptics who can't reconcile real life from reveries takes the cake. His saccharine yet childish antics moved me to pieces. Case in point, he gave Charlotte Gainsbourg a cool time machine he invented as a no-particular-occasion present, and when asked why, he sweetly muttered, "on the occasion that you're pretty".
Some have commented that the film left them monumentally bored, but surprisingly the montage of beautiful images and colors engaged my eyes and really left me in a dream-like state for almost two hours. Sheer genius. And Gael and his quirky officemates even performed a slow, jazzy and cutesy song called "If You Rescue Me" (which apparently is a pseudo-cover of a Velvet Underground song) while they were in cat costumes. Such cuteness...
One of the best opening sequences in a movie. Check it out:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=-78pDIEFZoE]
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