“In order to make classical music, you have to go beyond adolescence.”

Michel Gondry is back! Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Science of Dreams, Summary of days or Green Hornet it is him ! The director returns to theaters the day after tomorrow with his twelfth feature film Solution book, A film featuring Pierre Nene playing the role of Mark Becker, an innovative, creative and depressed filmmaker who cannot finish his film. So he leaves for the countryside, in Cevennes, to his beloved aunt Denise (played by Françoise Lebrun) with her dashes and also her editor (played by Blanche Jardin) and a few others from the team, to try to complete his works. By available means. A garden hose for a rainy scene, a truck that becomes a newsroom, or an impromptu orchestra.

“I am always defined as a skilled worker. People have the impression that I do things in a casual way, not caring about the result, whereas I often work in a precise way. DIY is a way of getting an immediate result. It is a form of impatience: the ability to see How things are going, and knowing whether the idea is good or not good. Cinema is the possibility of creating a world that seems normal but in which unnatural things can appear. “The creation of this world is a utopia.” “The film is inventing a world in which we can do impossible things.”

In the midst of this delightful chaos, Mark decides to write a book of solutions to settle his inner chaos. In subtext, this film tells in the form of a self-portrait what Michel Gondry actually experienced 8 years ago, during the post-production of the film: “I was so afraid that people would say: Why would he make a movie about his life, we don’t care. One day, I was on the train with my brother and we were talking a little loudly, and someone said to us, “We don’t care about your life.” This stuck with me. I had this complex. All the technicians came together to support me and help me realize the project. “I felt that empathy so strongly, it helps.”

“If you shake, you should stop before the age of 40.”

Composed by Etienne Charry (his companion on the road since the beginning), the music is an essential part of it. Without going into too many details, there is a scene with an orchestra in which Marc (Pierre Nini) conducts and composes with his body, like Michel Gondry in real life: “I want to have a place in the Hitchcock film or the music is free to donate a fouet: on the partition, with a band on the screen, use the music to give the freedom to choose when I note that I have entered it. General Administration. I thought to myself: We can do this live, by moving our arms.

Music is ingrained in his work and life and always has been. His grandfather, Constant Martin, invented the claviolin in 1947 – the predecessor to the synthesizer – and his parents were musicians, as were his two brothers. He grew up listening to Duke Ellington. He himself was a drummer in the band Oui-Oui in the 1980s, and before he started producing feature films, Michel Gondry invented the rules of the music video, by creating clips that were seen around the world for Björk, Daft Punk, Radiohead or even IAM for example Example but not limited to. Michel Gondry is currently preparing a musical comedy film in Hollywood about the life of singer Pharrell Williams.