The world of Mood Indigo is a stained-glass cartoon kind of a place, where the piano dispenses cocktails. We have new and used copies available, in 3 editions - starting at 2.22.
He soon meets Chloé (Tautou) and, before they know it, they’re dancing to Duke Ellington and plunging headfirst into a romance that Gondry rapturously depicts as only he can. Buy Mood Indigo by Boris Vian online at Alibris. When Colin learns that his best friend Chick (Gad Elmaleh, THE VALET), a fellow acolyte of the philosopher Jean-Sol Partre, has a new American girlfriend, our lonely hero attends a friend’s party in hopes of falling in love himself. Set in a charmingly surreal Paris, Duris plays wealthy bachelor Colin, whose hobbies include developing his pianocktail (a cocktail-making piano) and devouring otherworldly dishes prepared by his trusty chef Nicolas (Omar Sy, THE INTOUCHABLES).
The inventive Gondry finds inspiration from french novelist Boris Vian’s cult novel, L’Ecume des jours (FOAM OF THE DAZE) to provide the foundation for this visionary and romantic love story starring Audrey Tautou (AMÉLIE, COCO BEFORE CHANEL) and Romain Duris (THE BEAT MY HEART SKIPPED).
With the help of Michel Gondry and Audrey Tautou, it is set to seduce many, many more.MOOD INDIGO is a true return to form for Michel Gondry, exploring the surreal landscape of emotion and imagination along the lines of his classics THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP and ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND. Recently voted number ten on Le Monde's list of the 100 Books of the Century (the top ten also included works by Camus, Proust, Kafka, Hemingway, and Steinbeck), Boris Vian's novel has been an icon of French literature for fifty years-the avant-garde, populist masterpiece by one of twentieth-century Paris's most intriguing cultural figures, a touchstone for generations of revolutionary young people, a jazz-fueled, science-fiction-infused, sexy, fantastical, nouveau-decadent tear-jerker that has charmed and beguiled hundreds of thousands of readers around the world. First published in 1947, Mood Indigo perfectly captures the feverishly creative, melancholy romance of mid-century Saint-Germain-des-Prs. The story is simple: Boy meets girl boy marries girl girl falls ill on their honeymoon with a water lily on the lung, which can only be treated by being surrounded by flowers boy goes broke desperately trying to keep his true love alive.įirst published in 1947, Mood Indigo perfectly captures the feverishly creative, melancholy romance of mid-century Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The basis of the new major movie from Michel Gondry, starring Audrey Tautou, the beloved French modern classic hailed as "the most poignant love story of our time" by Raymond Queneau
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