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This week’s Eye Candy: Michel Gondry

Every Saturday we feature a collection of works from some of our favorite filmmakers – the kind of works that you sometimes catch on the tube, on the net or when wasting away in front of MTV. IONCINEMA.com’s Eye Candy of the week are …

Every Saturday we feature a collection of works from some of our favorite filmmakers – the kind of works that you sometimes catch on the tube, on the net or when wasting away in front of MTV. IONCINEMA.com’s Eye Candy of the week are …

On the eve of this weekend’s North American release of The Science of Sleep, I’ve decided to honor the pioneer filmmaker, music video helmer and commercials director who is making a growing number of us envious of his ingenuity and talent. I love how Gondry confronts the film and digital mediums by bending the geometric and scientific rules of the mise-en-scene. He is a whacked out artist who I can’t get enough of – here is a fairly simple airline commercial that charmed the dickens out of me.

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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).

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