Anyone who says back to school is saying good decisions. Michel Gondry understood this well in his new achievement of lifting the curtain. 8 years after Microbe and Gasoil and after Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet star in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, or Romain Dury and Audrey Tautou in L’Écume des jours, this time Pierre Nin takes the poster. for The Book of Decisions, currently in theaters.
Pierre Nini in the skin of Michel Gondry
Controversial Blanche Gardin, an actress who needs no introduction, plays Mark, a filmmaker struggling to finish his latest production. Abandoned by the financiers, he still decides to continue his project and for this he takes part of the film crew to the small village of Céven, where his aunt, Denise, lives. There, he hopes to rediscover his creativity, but quickly gets caught up in a flood of ideas that sometimes leads him away from his original goal.
Michel Gondry’s very personal film, Le Livre des Solutions is an autofiction that finds its roots in episodes of his life, especially when he was in post-production for L’Écume des magazines.
Who is Suzette Gondry?
If certain elements, such as the truck (collector truck), or his house in Vilmania, come directly from the director’s presence, the same applies to the most vivid character of his feature film: Denise. Played by Françoise Lebrun (Mother and Whore), the protagonist’s aunt is inspired by Michel Gondry’s real-life aunt, Suzette, to whom it is dedicated. Book of solutions.
Died in 2021, Suzette Gondry is a woman well known to lovers of Michel Gondry, as her nephew photographed her as a thorn in the heart. A sublime documentary presented at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, in which he paints a portrait of his family, but especially of this teacher, this woman he loves so much and who has so many stories to tell.
This year, Gondry once again expresses all his love to the one he considers his mother in a funny, touching and personal film that will surely make you fall in love with the famous Suzette Gondry unconditionally!
Discover The Book of Decisions, now and exclusively in theaters.
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