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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #34. Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo

Published on January 14, 2013

Mood Indigo

Director: Michel Gondry
Writer(s): Luc Bossi
Producer(s): Luc Bossi
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Audrey Tautou, Omar Sy, Romain Duris, Gad Elmaleh, Alain Chabat

The last time Gondry made something noteworthy in the film realm it was 2006’s The Science of Sleep – and coincidentally, from purely from a concept point of view, the world created in Boris Vian’s L’écume des jours / Mood Indigo might be terrific terrain for Gondry to work his mad-hatter manners into a film narrative. Headling are the trio of Audrey Tautou, Omar Sy and Romain Duris.

Gist: A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.

Release Date: Studicanal gives the film a French theatrical release in the month of April, so will the Cannes Film Festival show this out of comp for international critics? We think yes.

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).