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  Review by Rod Sedgwick ★★★★ 2

  A simple romantic engagement that travels the (almost literal) rollercoaster of a relationship, dressed in an imaginative artistry that is quite indescribable with mere words, but I will try. This inventive kaleidoscope of colour and life that Michel Gondry has offered up with his latest surrealist vision is an overwhelming feast for the senses based on Boris Vian's cult French novel 'Froth On The Daydream'.

  Now that I have sucked you in, be warned that there are two 'official' cuts of the film. The original 130 minute cut that was released in France, but also a much tighter, narratively focussed 94 minute cut that Gondry supervised along with a different editor in Tariq Anwar who cut The King's Speech and…

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  Review by Esteban Gonzalez ★★½ 2

  "This feeling of solitude is unfair. I demand to fall in love too!"

  No one does surrealism better than the French, but unfortunately I'm not into surrealism and I usually have a hard time enjoying this genre in general. Mood Indigo is probably more surreal than any other film you've seen before, and despite the fantastic visuals and rich imagery used I had a hard time engaging with the characters and its lack of a strong narrative story. I was a huge fan of director, Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and despite the surrealism in that film I enjoyed the strong narrative along with the romance, but I guess a lot of that had to do with…

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  Review by Thomas McCallum ★★½ 1

  Performances: 6.7/10
  Story: 2/10
  Production: 6.3/10
  Overall: 5/10

  Hello disappointment, it's been a while!

  Since first seeing the trailer for Mood Indigo what feels like years ago, I've been anxiously waiting for Michel Gondry's latest to be released in America. Now that I've finally got around to watching it I just feel nauseated.

  It's not that it was "so bad it was good" it's that it was so over-the-top weird that it became painful to watch. From the very first scene it was apparent that the quirk knob was dialed up to 10 and I don't think it ever backed off once. There were numerous stop-motion sequences of moving food, strange doorbells and self-tying, leg-twisting shoes. None of this services…

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  Review by Josh Larsen ★★★★ 3

  First Impression: It's not often that whimsy is employed to tear your heart out.

  Final review: www.larsenonfilm.com/mood-indigo

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  Review by russman ★★ 1

  Michel Gondry must have thought he was making one of his music videos the whole time

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  Review by Brian Tallerico ★★½

  Amelie would say it was too whimsical.

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  Review by Imogen ★★★★ 6

  I hyped this up a fair amount. Watching the trailer about forty thousand times a day leading up to the DVD release probably didn’t give Mood Indigo any chance of being half as good as how I perceived those two minutes of filmy-wilmy heaven to be. Not to say it was bad. Far from it, infact. I caught my mouth falling open just seconds in. Whether the shock was due to the quality of the opening or the fact that I was actually watching the proper, full, self-predicted cinematic odyssey, I can’t recall.

  It’s hard to define the story when so much happens visually. It’s easy to get lost in all the morphing rooms, insect door bell, spinning food and…

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  Review by viniciusnicacio ★★★★½

  I love the fact that the movie explores the visual stimulus to bring us closer to the characters' feelings. The aesthetic of the film change as the emotions change. The film starts colorful and full of life. As Chloé gets sick, the film gains dark tones, tight spaces, morbidity.
   My favorite part of this film are the visual metaphors. In a certain scene, the protagonist couple rides on a cable car in cloud format, just when they are feeling in the clouds, in the stasis of a first date.
   The flowers of Chloé's treatment further embellish this surrealist work by creating beautiful scenes.
   Without any doubts, it’s one of my favorite films.

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★

  40/100

  Watched the original European cut, which runs over two hours and feels like four. Since a previous adaptation of Boris Vian's cult novel (2001's Chloe, from Japan) ranks among the worst films I've ever seen, it's entirely possible that Gondry did the best job possible, given the material and its unsuitability for the screen. All the same, this rivals The Zero Theorem for exhausting, anti-entertaining wackiness, with only a few isolated music-video touches (the bendy-legged dance, the stop-motion insectoid doorbell/buzzer) coming across as inspired rather than overdetermined. In theory, the gradual shift in tone and look as things go downhill provides retroactive justification for the initial whimsy overload, but in practice it amounts to merely an alternate, bleaker delivery…

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  Review by olivia 🌷💛 ★★★½

  when will someone take me on a ride in a cloud bubble that is hanging off the end of a crane over paris... sigh

  (anyway michel gondry is a creative genius!!)

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  Review by Zack Ford ★★★★

  Over-stretched leg dancing is my nightmare!

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  Review by Owen ★★★★★

  I pine for more films that look THIS beautiful. Like, wow, I was blown away over how beautiful every single frame of this film is.