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DomA Send a noteboard - 10/06/2012 01:41:41 AM
- L'Ecume des jours, by Boris Vian
The French director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind... and the rather awful Green Hornet), aka the master of lo-fi whimsical VFX is currently shooting a pretty big budgeted (for France) adaptation of L'Écume des Jours with Audrey Tautou (Amélie) as Chloé and Romain Duris as Colin, and a very solid secondary cast incl. Philippe Torreton as Jean-Sol Partre, and Omar Sy as Nicolas.
The trailer is expected by late fall. The movie is set for a 2013 release. For the US/UK release, they're opting for the friendlier Indigo Mood title (after one of the pianocktail's drinks) .
There's a lot of excitement (and some big apprehensions) around the movie. Vian is reputed unadaptable, even if it's hard to think of any director better suited to adapt succesfully Vian's universe than Gondry. The two previous attempts to adapt L'Écume des Jours have failed miserably with the transition between the light whimsical love story and the oppressing but poetic tragedy. It looks well set to be at least a visual feast for Vian's fans. The few sets and props that were shown are very promising, notably the oh-so-Vian-like nonsensical cars (modernized look - Gondry has opted for mixing up stuff from many eras for a unique retro-futuristic production design rather than go with a pure whimsical 1940s retro look):
http://www.notcot.org/post/47667/
or a wonderful rendition of the char-à-fliques:
http://www.indiewire.com/static/dims4/INDIEWIRE/30f6ec5/4102462740/thumbnail/680x478/http://d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net/67/08ca50b16811e1bcc4123138165f92/file/1714182_6_446b_le-char-a-fliques-vehicule-aux-pieds_9e6e0274fcb6dd9a4e3dbd75dea31715.jpg
Chick and Alyse (with a Partre doll) at the wedding:
http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2012/06/08/mood-indigo-2.jpg
This message last edited by DomA on 10/06/2012 at 01:44:59 AM
What should I read next in French and German?
- 22/05/2012 08:05:38 PM
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My list of French literature I've read is extremely short, so, um, Racine? Yourcenar?
- 22/05/2012 08:17:49 PM
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Re: My list of French literature I've read is extremely short, so, um, Racine? Yourcenar?
- 23/05/2012 03:23:37 AM
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That would require yet another Pléiade purchase
- 23/05/2012 04:10:48 AM
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How about one of the Greek Novels?
- 23/05/2012 03:47:58 AM
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*browses shelves*
- 23/05/2012 06:43:38 AM
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I bought 16 books of Jung and 4 of Freud.
- 23/05/2012 01:44:16 PM
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Don Carlos
- 23/05/2012 06:21:48 PM
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Yeah, I have that. *NM*
- 23/05/2012 09:30:48 PM
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And if you were to read the Spanish versions, there are two well-known plays
- 23/05/2012 11:57:45 PM
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Okay, I looked at Don Carlos. I see no resemblance to Don Juan.
- 25/05/2012 08:40:05 PM
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I mentioned it because Don Juan appears in it, but is not the star of it
- 25/05/2012 10:24:20 PM
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It's hard for me to get excited about Spanish literature.
- 26/05/2012 02:18:40 AM
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Carlos Fuentes said as much in his 2011 non-fiction book, La gran novela latinoamericana
- 26/05/2012 03:24:22 AM
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Re: *browses shelves*
- 23/05/2012 06:57:22 PM
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I have the two-volume anthology of French poetry from Pléiade (book series, not the poet group).
- 23/05/2012 09:32:51 PM
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Re: I have the two-volume anthology of French poetry from Pléiade (book series, not the poet group).
- 24/05/2012 01:38:45 AM
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You could read the world's first Sci-Fi novel, Lucian of Samosata's Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα.
- 27/05/2012 03:08:30 PM
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Having read more about that, I'm tempted to say genre fiction has always been bad.
- 28/05/2012 03:40:45 AM
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Re: What should I read next in French and German?
- 08/06/2012 09:33:44 PM
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If you like Vian (and movies), you might like to know...
- 10/06/2012 01:41:41 AM
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