Fantastical French romance starring Audrey Tautou (Amelie), Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) and Omar Sy (The Intouchables),...
Fantastical French romance starring Audrey Tautou (Amelie), Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) and Omar Sy (The Intouchables), from inventive filmmaker Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Based on the 1947 novel Froth on the Daydream, the story follows the courtship and marriage of a young couple. Heartbreak ensues when the woman develops an illness that can only be treated by surrounding her with flowers.
Colin (Duris), a wealthy young man and inventor of the cocktail-mixing piano, wants to fall in love. With the help of his cook Nicolas (Sy) and best friend Chick (Gad Elmaleh), he meets Chloe (Tautou), the incarnation of a Duke Ellington tune. But soon after their wedding, Chloe falls ill. She has a water lily growing in her chest. Ruined by medical expenses, Colin resorts to increasingly desperate methods to save his beloved's life.
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62 %110 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
53 %3,630 reviewsAudience score rating
"Fans of Michel Gondry bummed at his troubled excursion into big-budget studio filmmaking with The Green Hornet should be pleased to know that Mood Indigo, his adaptation of Renaissance Frenchman Boris Vian’s 1947 novel L'ecume des jours, is a spritely restoration of his ol’ recognisably quirky and inventive self from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep."
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Flicks
Flicks"Sy, Maiga and the others play second fiddle not only to the leads but especially to the visual effects, which are indeed impressive..."
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Variety
Variety"Like eating a box of chocolates in one sitting, will leave you stuffed but hankering for something more substantial. Gondry-ites will be seduced, but this is as undisciplined as it is inventive."
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Total Film
Total Film"A surrealist pastiche that's too clever (or enthusiastic) for its own good."
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The Age
The Age"Less a visual feast than an all-you-can-eat buffet, and one that's rather hard to consume."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"If you enjoy Gondry’s brand of homemade art direction then there’s plenty to delight early on, but it’s all wallpaper."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineMood Indigo | Details
- Rating
- M, Mature themes and violence
- Runtime
- 90
- Genre
- Drama, Fantasy, Romance
- Country of origin
- France
