![]() ![]() There’s lots of dancing, bouncing, jumping and flying around - with some scenes, including a set-piece at rather strange ice rink, emerging as truly spectacular. A water lily starts growing in one of Chloe’s lungs, which gives Gondry the chance to insinuate himself into the proceedings as a weird medic. ![]() The overkill threatens to bludgeon the much-loved book into an over-wrought exercise in style despite the efforts of a zesty cast, which includes Audrey Tautou, Omar Sy and Romain Duris.Īt heart, this is a very simple love story between Tautou (Chloé) and Duris (Colin) who meet, get to know each other, marry and live happily – but not quite ever after because she develops a condition that threatens her health. ![]() With French director Michel Gondry we have come to expect the surreal and the wacky but perhaps not quite in such a heavy dose as he throws at Boris Vian’s post-war literary classic. ![]()
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