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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #142. Michel Gondry’s Le Livre des solutions

Published on January 10, 2023

Le Livre des solutions

More than seven years after the release of Microbe & Gasoline, Michel Gondry returns to features (he produced a lot of shorts in between) with a formidable cast comprised of Pierre Niney, Blanche Gardin, Camille Rutherford, Vincent Elbaz, Frankie Wallach and Françoise Lebrun. Production took place in June of last year in a Paris. Partizan Films’ Georges Bermann produced Le Livre des solutions.

Gist: This revolves around a director seeking to vanquish his demons which are stifling his creativity.

Release Date/Prediction: Berlinale might be a good first pit stop for the film.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).