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  1. 02-06-2024, 08:21 PM #11
    Chris Knipp
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    THE BOOK OF SOLUTIONS/LE LIVRE DE SOLUTIONS (Michel Gondry 2023)

    After an eight-year break since his Microbe & Gasoline, Gondry depicts a semi-autobiographical story of a filmmaker who grabs his rushes from controlling producers and tries to finish the film - something like this happened with his Mood Indigo, apparently - at his aunt's house in the country, without a conventional studio, using what the French call bricolage, working improvisationally. He also goes off his meds, which makes the improvisations off the wall. Manic fun that's not everybody's dish of tea.

    Screened for this review as part of the Rendez-Vous with French Cinema at Lincoln Center, New York (Feb. 29-Mar. 10, 2024. Showtimes:
    Thursday, March 7 at 6:00pm
    Sunday, March 10 at 4:00pm
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