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...bringing his signature magic to the story. In particular, the film within the film, and especially Hiroko’s slow transformation into a chair, are rendered with the puppeteer’s elbow-grease so common in Gondry films. And while in the past dialogue has rarely been Gondry??s strong suit, here the chemistry between the young couple—and between the couple and the city itself—combines humor and emotion in charming turns.Monstrosity in its most grotesque is Carax’s fascination in “Merde...
...Gondry said in an interview at MIT on Feb. 4, “and I can really relate to her craziness.” MIT has long been known for its irreverent techie idiosyncrasies. “Hacks,” or large-scale pranks, are an MIT tradition. Gondry??s own fascination with the inventive side of MIT springs from his childlike affinity for problem-solving and engineer’s love for hands-on tinkering, which he cultivated as an artist-in-residence at MIT in 2005. These traits, joined with his utopian hope for community...
...that he so clearly considers pedestrian despite his participation in the studio system? What does Gondry think makes a movie worth watching?As ambitious as these questions may be, the director isn’t terribly concerned with answering them in “Rewind.” Instead, Gondry??—who also wrote the film—takes the loosely autobiographical plotline as an opportunity to run wild with the refined amateurism that resulted in the high points of his last film, 2006’s “The Science of Sleep...
...Jesus Walks.” The rendition has all the class, emotion, history and feeling West never could eke out of that soul jam, no matter how many times he filmed the video.And this song is just one of the many, many genuinely great moments in Michel Gondry??s ludicrously entertaining new documentary “Dave Chappelle’s Block Party.”The movie is a record of what Chappelle calls, “The concert [I] always wanted to see,” which he filmed in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn in September...
...afraid of robots? Have we let our guard down prematurely? After all, we may not always be able to count on Beck to save us from the androids and their dancing ways.—Abe J. Riesman"The Denial Twist"The White Stripes At the end of Michel Gondry??s video for the White Stripes’ “The Denial Twist,” Conan O’Brian ’85 laments: “My head’s getting bigger…squarer…more like a cube...