A friend just walked out of a Mood Indigo screening, here in summer 2014, which led me to discover that my reviews for the last few days of Fantastic Fest 2013 were missing. I'm trying to piece together my reviews from memory.
The thing about Mood Indigo is that it is very pretty. The film starts in the happy, whimsical way typical of French film. Batchelor Colin is in love, life is good, and he lives in a magical house with a mouse and live in chef. The world is colorful and dancing as he woos Chlöe his future bride.
But a rare illness - a water lily growing in her lungs - strikes Chlöe on their honeymoon, and things begin to go awry. The great part of this film is how the cinematography adapts to the mood. The colorful is replaced with the grey, the animated world starts to decay, and darkness literally grows into their home and life. The sad part of the film is just how damned depressing it is to see things go so badly for this happy young couple. I think this film epitomizes French cinema - sentient mouse, claymation, live in chef, and horribly depressing ending of death and decay. No thanks.
L'écume des jours (Mood Indigo)
2013, 94 minutes, directed by Michel Gondry
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