But I was asked to do an adaptation, and I didn’t want to shy away from doing it my own way - I didn’t want to be apologetic about it. Some people in France were disappointed because they had imagined something else, and the film was infringing on their imagination. Mood Indigo is adapted from Froth on the Daydream, a book by Boris Vian that everyone grows up reading in France. I think it gives you this magical feeling. I’m a huge fan of movies like The Incredible Shrinking Man, made before digital effects, where they had to build oversize sets. Sometimes the mouse has been integrated in the background from blue-screen, but most of the time it was really there. There is one thing, when they go in the terminal and walk by a forest, and we did the forest in CGI, but that’s about it. Is there any part of Mood Indigo that we might be surprised to find was accomplished using computer graphics? (For more proof of Mood Indigo’s out-there visual sensibility, check out our collection of crazy GIFs from the film.) Gondry called up Vulture yesterday to discuss how he made the movie his own, his sometimes-confusing friendship with Dave Chappelle, and why he wasn’t as successful a music-video director as you might have thought. The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director has a real affinity for practical, tangible special-effects that have a certain handmade charm, and he’s never stuffed more of them into a movie than he has with his new effort, Mood Indigo, a whimsical tragi-romance where the courtship between Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou is threatened by a water lily growing inside her lungs. In a world where anything can be created in a computer, we need filmmakers like Michel Gondry more than ever.
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