Michel Gondry, under the influence: "I can't stand people saying bad things about Greta Thunberg"
Interview by Nicolas Schaller
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Interview An honorary crystal at the Annecy Animation Film Festival, a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française: the time has come to pay tribute to the director of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," 62 years old but still 12 in his head.
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A sign of destiny: as we left this interview with Michel Gondry at the Annecy Animation Film Festival, where he received an honorary Cristal for his entire career, we learned of the death of Brian Wilson , the soul of the Beach Boys. Yet the latter's naive relationship with art, his taste for experimentation, his ultra-sensitive reveries and powerfully melancholic songs of a plaintive big child have always seemed to us very close to the inspiration of the director of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". This film with Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet must be seen, seen again and shared, one of the craziest, most inventive and heartbreaking works on the loss of love, like so many of Brian Wilson's songs.
That's good: from June 15 to 27, the Cinémathèque française is dedicating a retrospective (in his presence) to Gondry, Gyro Gearloose of the image, genius of the video (Björk, Daft Punk, The Rolling Stones, IAM, The White Stripes), droll champion of the handmade, of collective emulation ("Be Kind, Rewind!", "Block Party", "The We and the I"), of failed loves and his hyper-artist neuroses ("The Science of Dreams", "The Book of Solutions").
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