Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Boring

An Exercise In Nonsense

The movie is after the 1947 "L'Ecume des Jours" book by Boris Vian. I read it as a teenager a long time ago, but I remember vividly being bowled over by its inventions, both stylistic and linguistic. The plot is surreal, the symbols are poetry in motion, but the main thread is easy to follow. Because I read the book so long ago, I cannot guaranty the fidelity of the movie to the original plot, but I can guaranty that this movie gave me great pleasure to watch, and shows fabulous powers of creativity, as did the book. A film adaptation of a written work of poetry and whimsy requires a different but equally stunning dose of creativity, the visuals having to replace the words play. I think this movie absolutely delivers the goods. Its imagery of techno-retro- 60s-nostalgia is a marvel to watch (should we all have Michel Gondry's imagination, and his sets designer's talent!) and the gist of the story remains what it was in the book: a poignant reflection on life's pleasures, love, illness, and sorrow.

This movie could very easily be called "Days of our Lives" considering the intense and very real story that tells. However, it manages to became a very special different kind of movie by the way it's played. I guess by now you can have an idea that this isn't one of those regular movies about "boy meets girl and falls in love and then there's life" that we are used to. It can get confusing and even a bit disturbing because of that, but in end that's what I found amazing. The very particular thing in this movie is the different way that colors, lights and movements were used to connect us with the story and set our emotions.At the beginning I hated it and really considered stop watching it. If it wasn't for my stubbornness to always watch the entire movie, knowing what I know now, I would have regretted! Yes, at the beginning it's confusing and weird. However when we reach the end we realize how the weirdness of the beginning helped setting the tone for the feelings that the story is supposed to bring. Mood Indigo could easily be a lifetime drama that would amaze simple audiences and not conqueror many more then the usual dramas, but the way on how it's played, like a children story (with a too much strong content to be played for kids!), kind of related to the more innocent me and made me feel the end with more intensity. I guess resuming it, this movie doesn't appear to be a regular life story but it is and I just loved the fact that was treated in a special way, making it's connection to a real story much bigger and in that way bringing more emotion. It's no spectacular movie but it's very interesting to watch. Also I think the title translation for English sort of lost a little bit of the message that the movie it's trying to pass.

Wow! I'm still scratching my head as to how I can articulate MOOD INDIGO in a way that neither discourages you from the experience nor encourages you enough to take the plunge into a fantastical world of stop motion animation, digital special effects and mechanical effects that you will detest (and me) afterwards. In a nutshell, MOOD INDIGO is like THE WIZARD OF OZ met the Monty Python comedy group somewhere on the yellow brick road and decided to rewrite 'Wolly Winker and the Focolate Chactory' with Michael Gondry (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND) in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.Gondry's adaption of Boris Vian's cult novel 'L'Ecume des Jours' is an exhaustive tale filled with tant d'indulgence that it struggles to deliver a tone and tempo that allows the viewer to find a balance between what is seen and heard on screen and the story expressed. And that therein, lies the problem: the non-stop whimsical flights-of-fancy such as the pianocktail, walking doorbell, mini mouse-man and the curved dining table on skates distract too much from the emotion of this tragic romance.MOOD INDIGO tells the story of wealthy, bohemian inventor Colin (Romain Duris) who lives in a rooftop, trailer-esque apartment overlooking Paris with roommate, chef and lawyer, Nicolas (Omar Sy). Bemoaning the lack of a lover with Nicolas and 'Patre' fanatic pal Chick (Gad Elmaleh) over lunch, Colin decides to attend a party at Isis' (Charlotte Le Bon) house where he meets 'a girl like a Duke Ellington tune' named Chloé (Audrey Tautou). After wooing her with dancing, ice-skating and a trip across Paris in a floating cloud car, the two fall madly in love and get married.The honeymoon, filmed in split-screen with sunshine on one side and rain on the other acts as a transitional point to a more sombre, monochromatic setting as Chloé becomes afflicted by a dangerous lung condition after swallowing a water lily. Again, Gondry fails to connect the audience emotionally to the denouement, preferring to use evolving set designs to represent fluctuating character moods and a 'six month later' title card to fast forward their declining situation.In order to pay for the ongoing and expensive medical treatments and surgery proposed by Chloé's doctor (played by Gondry himself), Colin (who is now broke), is forced to give up his bohemian lifestyle and take on a number of jobs to save his dying wife including one in a munitions factory. This symbolic metaphor for Chloé's death knell is also heightened visually by the muting of colour to monochrome. Although MOOD INDIGO was a struggle from the get go, it definitely has an appeal attractive to selective audiences. That audience however, just happens to not include me.You can catch more at my Twitter handle theSachaHall and The Hollywood News.

'MOOD INDIGO': Three and a Half Stars (Out of Five) French fantasy romance flick directed and co-written by Michel Gondry. It was also co-written and produced by Luc Bossi and based on the 1947 novel, 'Froth on the Daydream', by French writer Boris Vian. It tells the story of a rich inventor, living in a magically idealistic Paris, who falls for a woman he meets at a party. They quickly marry and then she becomes deathly ill, on their honeymoon, by a rare sickness. The film stars Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Glad Elmaleh, Aissa Maiga and Omar Sy (who recently appeared in such blockbusters as 'X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST' and 'THE INTOUCHABLES'). I loved the creativity and pure imagination of the film but couldn't get too involved in any of the characters or story.The story centers around Colin (Duris); a wealthy bachelor who invented the pianocktail (a cocktail making piano). He spends most of his time enjoying extravagant meals prepared for him by his servant, Nicolas (Sy), and chatting with his friend Chick (Elmaleh). When Chick tells Colin he's fallen for an American woman, named Alise (Maiga), Colin attends a friend's party in hopes of meeting a woman himself. Once at the party he meets Chloe (Tautou) and quickly falls for her. The two get married and everything seems perfect until Chloe becomes severely sick (due to a water lily growing in her lung).Visually the film is stunning and constantly interesting to look at. I love Michel Gondry and think he's a beautifully artistic director ('ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND' is one of my favorite movies). The actors in the film are all talented but their characters aren't very well developed; they're too cartoonish and don't seem like real people at all. That's my only problem with this movie. I absolutely love it's visual beauty but I just couldn't get into it's story. It would have been much better as a short film, or series of shorts, rather than a 2-hour and 11 minute feature.Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew1sXPb-oQQ