Le Romantique
The New York Times Magazine has a lengthy profile of Michel Gondry, director of numerous music videos, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the upcoming Science of Sleep:
As a director, Gondry creates highly imaginative worlds that seem to exist somewhere between the conscious and the unconscious; again and again, states of waking and dreaming clash and collide and, finally, create a new sort of reality. All of this is a little chaotic, but Gondry understands the appeal of disorientation, of the audience’s not immediately understanding what it is seeing. He gets impatient when the events unfolding in a narrative are too organized, too emotionally tidy. But despite his taste for the whimsical and the fantastical — in “The Science of Sleep,” for instance, the sets are deliberately jumbled and the handmade props that populate Stephane’s dreams look like a summer-camp crafts project gone brilliantly extreme — the stories he tells are grounded in the timeless questions and yearnings of human relationships. Read more (via Kottke)
The New York Times Magazine has a lengthy profile of Michel Gondry, director of numerous music videos, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the upcoming Science of Sleep:
As a director, Gondry creates highly imaginative worlds that seem to exist somewhere between the conscious and the unconscious; again and again, states of waking and dreaming clash and collide and, finally, create a new sort of reality. All of this is a little chaotic, but Gondry understands the appeal of disorientation, of the audience’s not immediately understanding what it is seeing. He gets impatient when the events unfolding in a narrative are too organized, too emotionally tidy. But despite his taste for the whimsical and the fantastical — in “The Science of Sleep,” for instance, the sets are deliberately jumbled and the handmade props that populate Stephane’s dreams look like a summer-camp crafts project gone brilliantly extreme — the stories he tells are grounded in the timeless questions and yearnings of human relationships. Read more (via Kottke)