Le Livre des solutions
Follows a man, a director who tries to vanquish his demons, which are oppressing his creativity.
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"Marc is a director of arty films who, when his latest project is deemed by studio bosses to be a likely commercial disaster, runs away to the countryside to finish it in peace. Pitching up with a few loyal crew members at his kind aunt Denise's cottage, he battles both his artistic problems and mental ones, as well as trying to complete a project he started years before - the 'Book of Solutions', a self-help manual for life. If only he did not keep getting distracted by, eg, making a documentary about an ant, or a cartoon about a hairdressing fox. It is pretty much Pierre Niney..."
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Inspired by Michel Gondry's personal experience during the post-production of Mood Indigo (2013). Amongst the similarities:
- Gondry did conduct an orchestra with his body for Mood Indigo (2013) (although the music was already composed);
- the subplot with Sting refers to the participation of Paul McCartney who plays bass on several tracks in Mood Indigo (2013);
- Gondry experimented with a non-chronological editing technique for Mood Indigo (2013) to avoid watching the first scenes too much: he started in the middle with scene 30, then scene 29, then scene 31, and so on until he reached both ends.
- Gondry apparently entertained with Mood Indigo (2013) the idea of a four-hour movie with an animated intermission in the middle;
- during the shoot of Mood Indigo (2013), Gondry was taking pills to regulate his mood and his obsessive behavior, then stopped after editing began, and he blew up like in the movie. Soon after, he was diagnosed bipolar by a psychiatrist.
On top of this, the movie within the movie in The Book of Solutions (2023) is 50s-style movie with a mouse, like Mood Indigo (2013).
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Follows a man, a director who tries to vanquish his demons, which are oppressing his creativity.