2023 · comedy · drama · supernatural
The Book of Solutions
Directed by Michel Gondry1h 42m2023
Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away the rushes to his aunt’s place in the Cévennes, to finish the film as he envisions it. Instead, its completion is constantly postponed, as he creates endless diversions and impasses, which alternate between the comic and the downright disturbing.
Our read: The Book of Solutions (2023) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · supernatural entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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