“We can do everything with a drawing”: Brilliant Michel Gondri opens the new edition of Annecy Festival

Hours before the official shot of the 2025 publication, Annecy Festival opened a special movie theater lesson by Michel Gondri. The French director is present this year as a respect for respect, but also reveal his new animated film Maya, give another title.

The general public knows more about Michel Gondri’s work in the cinema with real footage: Eternal Sunny Spotless Mind, Be Nice, Rembobinez, L’Arume Des Jours or Pierre Niney.

The animation was used on certain clips of the filmmaker-he fell in love with the white strip girl and Rolling Stones Rolling Stone and his last two films: Maya, give me the title and his suits Maya, give me another title.

Crystal and points

On the stage of the Bonliu Theater, the director was awarded an honorable crystal, who in the hands of all his careers in Olivier Gondri. Attention that seems to be very much about filmmaker, but the latter quickly found his feelings due to what the optical effect inspires his prize.

“We can imagine everything with a drawing. It’s a trivial gesture but with paper and pencil we can do everything” Earlier he declares everything to Big Jack in this master class. But it is also a way to overcome budget problems for a filmmaker. For example, Michelle Gondri remembers digital transitions to the eternal sun of her film.

Production warned this shortly before the shooting began that it would be impossible to take a planned sequence initially for budget reasons. Michel Gondri quickly convinced her of her co-script Charlie Kaufman, who saw the perfect opportunity to simplify the idea through simple effects.

Gondri performs his accounts with great studios

“Cinema is the art of compromise. Therefore it is important to find ideas to find decisions for this” The philosopher had previously added humor and of course to add a little personal experience: “You have to put your ego in the right place. Good ideas sometimes come from the outside. That’s horrible, there are some bad ideas for others.”

Overcoming his film Green Hornet, which he does not name, produces his only very big budget. From this Superhero feature film, Gondri remembers an unpleasant impression that they hired and then fought for the same reasons. “I felt like I was on that baby team

If you want Michelle Gondri, please do not tell her that her film’s favorite movie is the eternal sun of meaningless mind. Not because he denies this feature film, but in part because he reminds him of a painful sentimental break. “I like it when this movie gave me another movie because I think He adds a candidate to the entire assembly in front of him.

This 2015 film is the one who considers Michel Gondri the most personal

It is said that his most personal film is microbes and diesel. This road film published in 2015 features a trip to the French roads by two teenagers built in the car. “It is easier for me to identify with adolescents aged 14 or 15 years old” Explains a film director who also implies the meaning of his dreams to write a movie:

“I have mentioned all my dreams while writing a movie. I was in the second part of the movie. Explains Michelle Gondri, who, however, refuses to be in parallel between her dreams and her nightmares – with the films she shot.

This panel also gave Michel Gondrey to show what annoys him. The fact that we compare our activities “Paste Modeling”. In addition, it is not defined as someone “Nostalgic” :: “I have been working with digital technology. I don’t think everything was better before. I just choose a tool that is most appropriate for the idea that I want to post pictures.”

What does Michelle Gondri hate

The Director also named against these directors who plan him but justify their gesture as A. “A tribute” His job. “I hate everyone who says we are no longer creating our days, but now everything is processed.” He adds and shows that he has given himself the temptation of plagiarism for the needs of the video camera, but apologized for the artist.

Qualification “Impatient” – The desire to practice puts the idea at a moment when it comes to mind (which obviously does not give animation) – Michel Gondri also join himself in mind as someone “Active with a softened touret syndrome.”

For almost 90 minutes of exchange, the director offered to dive in his imagination and also show his natural talent as a show on stage. Or open a dream for this 2025 publication of Annecy Festival!