Le Livre des solutions

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Françoise Lebrun, Frankie Wallach, Pierre Niney, and Blanche Gardin in Le Livre des solutions (2023)

Follows a man, a director who tries to vanquish his demons, which are oppressing his creativity.Follows a man, a director who tries to vanquish his demons, which are oppressing his creativity.Follows a man, a director who tries to vanquish his demons, which are oppressing his creativity.

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Inspired by Michel Gondry's personal experience during the post-production of L'Écume des jours (2013). Amongst the similarities:
Gondry did conduct an orchestra with his body for L'Écume des jours (2013) (although the music was already composed);
the subplot with Sting refers to the participation of Paul McCartney who plays bass on several tracks in L'Écume des jours (2013);
Gondry experimented with a non-chronological editing technique for L'Écume des jours (2013) to avoid watching the first scenes too much: he started in the middle with scene 30, then scene 29, then scene 31, and so on until he reached both ends.
Gondry apparently entertained with L'Écume des jours (2013) the idea of a four-hour movie with an animated intermission in the middle;
during the shoot of L'Écume des jours (2013), Gondry was taking pills to regulate his mood and his obsessive behavior, then stopped after editing began, and he blew up like in the movie. Soon after, he was diagnosed bipolar by a psychiatrist.

On top of this, the movie within the movie in Le Livre des solutions (2023) is 50s-style movie with a mouse, like L'Écume des jours (2013).

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References L'Écume des jours (2013)

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7/10

Annoyingly Funny (MAMI MFF 2023 #18)

There's humour in every other frame of The Book of Solutions and that's one major reason why you should check it out. Other reasons include an almost accurate portrayal of the creative process of filmmakers, good writing, and perfect pace. I say this because it's only at the final frame that I understood why the lead guy, a filmmaker, refuses to watch his own film roll for the sake of editing. And exasperated, as you will be too at the beginning because he's eccentric, are his editor, producer, aunt, and field guy. This is the type of film you need to watch twice to understand all the hidden jokes which I'm assuming there are because this is a clever film enacted near perfectly.

(Watched at the 2023 MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.)