Foam Of Days: Love Like A Dream

Foam Of Days: Love Like A Dream
Foam Of Days: Love Like A Dream

Video: Foam Of Days: Love Like A Dream

Video: Foam Of Days: Love Like A Dream
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The 35th Moscow International Film Festival showed the most accurate screen version of "Foam of Days" by Boris Vian, one of the best novels of the 20th century. Guess from once who masterfully coped with this matter? That's right - Michel Gondry.

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Handsome Kneen (Romain Duris) has everything: money, a lot of free time, a friend (Gad Elmaleh) who adores Jean-Sol Partra, and even a personal chef (Omar Sy) who catches an eel for dinner from an ordinary tap. Everything except the beloved girl. But as soon as Colin went to a party, his girlfriend appeared. Chloe (Audrey Tautou) loves Knee. Colin loves Chloe. They would live happily ever after and fly on mechanical clouds in their surreal world, but Chloe was suddenly struck by an equally surreal disease. A deadly water lily grows in her right lung.

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Boris Vian's novel "Foam of the Days" has been filmed twice already. Even the Japanese Go Riju tried to make a film out of the book. However, to say that "Foam of Days" Viana and director Michel Gondry were made for each other is to say nothing. This is a truly amazing symbiosis: what one lacks, adds another, and vice versa. When there is not enough imagination to build this entire complex Vian universe in your mind, reading a book, the visionary Gondry takes over the watch, whose imagination and engineering abilities, perhaps, will be enough for several more such Vians. And when there are plenty of visual images, in your pocket for a word, or rather, for a play on words, you still have to climb to Vian. For the first time, I don't want to consider the book and the film separately, or compare. They are so fused in bodies that separating them is like an operation on Siamese twins.

Nevertheless, the partly decadent work of Boris Vian takes on different colors from Gondry. His "Foam of Days" is also sad, but at the same time ironic, funny, very touching and, first of all, about love. Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris played an important role in this. That visual contact that escapes in the novel is performed in the film so sensitively and sincerely that the viewer himself is able to fall in love with Chloe and Colin. And looking at the heroine Audrey Tautou, it is completely impossible to get rid of nostalgia for Amelie Poulin. Although in "Foam of Days", of course, everything is different.

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For Gondry, "Foam" is a director's Rubik's cube, stuffed with complex mechanisms and manual stop-motion, a form devoid of moralizing and feigned psychologism. And it is not necessary to collect this cube by plane colors. The process is important. What matters is how skillfully this theater of the absurd can be played. That is probably why the resourceful director turned out not a film, but a 2-hour clip, which is almost impossible to tear away from, even if it is difficult to logically explain what is happening in the frame. This is already the cost of the surrealist Vian, and perhaps the music video maker Gondry, beloved by the singer Bjork. But summing up the costs, it is quite possible to get a bright piece of art.

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