The NY Times interviews Michel Gondry, whose much-anticipated Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opens March 19. Here, Gondry discusses his next feature length project:
[Gondry] has put more of himself in each new film, and he promised that "the next one will be 100 percent me." For the first time, he has written the script himself, which seems a natural progression. After all, he said, "There's a little story in all my videos." He is lining up the production now, probably to be filmed in Paris, partly in French and partly in English. "It's about conquering your dreams," he said of the story, in which the hero "can't wake up any more because the people in the dream don't want him to leave the dream, and they hold him as a hostage." This does sound 100 percent him, right down to the sweet-tempered murder. As he described it: "There's a guy who commits murder in his dream but with an electric shaver. An electric shaver becomes huge and shaves everything in sight."Posted by nchicha at March 7, 2004 04:51 AM
Have you seen the works of Jan Švankmajer? A surrealist who made a variety of brilliant and thought provoking animated-films. Jan infuses his films with a philosophical depth that is pretty luminous and insanely beautiful imagery.
Posted by: Michael on March 7, 2004 09:16 AMThanks for the recommendation. I'll rent him ASAP.
Posted by: Nathalie Chicha on March 7, 2004 10:51 AMOooo! And his disciples,the Brothers Quay. "Street of Crocodiles" is amazing.
Posted by: cinetrix on March 7, 2004 01:03 PMHmm. Gondry made a far too-long short film with a similar plot, except that his was his poo who kept following him around, wanting to keep the relationship alive. It's on the DVD of his collected videos.
I just hope he has someone to give him constructive criticism.
Posted by: greg.org on March 8, 2004 01:49 PM