THE INNOCENTS, THE BFG, MICROBE & GASOLINE, LIFE ANIMATED and other July 1 openers – Reviews by Jennifer Merin
Top picks among this week’s opening films are Anne Fontaine’s harrowing post World War II drama, The Innocents, plus Steven
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AWFJ Movie of the Week, July 14-20: MOOD INDIGO
Opening July 18, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo, a unique love story that incorporates fantastical, surreal elements. Gondry’s stylishly quirky fantasy world includes a piano that makes cocktails, a dining room on rollerskates and a cloud-shaped vehicle. Boris Vian’s eponymous cult novel provides the inspiration for the film, which stars Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris as lovers whose whirlwind affair is threatened when a flower begins to grow in her lungs. It’s the kind of twist that fits perfectly well with Gondry’s inventive imagination. Read on…
Read moreMOOD INDIGO – Review by Jennifer Merin
In Mood Indigo, filmmaker Michel Gondry presents a delightfully stylish and quirky fantasy world in which a lonely Parisian inventor
Read moreAWFJ Women On Film – “The Thorn In The Heart” – Review by Jennifer Merin
While watching Michel Gondry’s documentary about his Aunt Suzette, you feel like a guest who’s been invited to a family
Read moreAWFJ Women On Film – “The Thorn in the Heart” – Review by Cynthia Fuchs
The film watches mother and son looking back, their interconnected but also disparate processes made visible in interviews, home movies,
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