If the idea of a pharmacy where silver carrots are turned into pills by a contraption that’s half-machine and half-rabbit sounds like something insufferably quirky and twee, then you won’t like this version any better than the previous one. But their post-marital bliss is cut short when, on their honeymoon, a water lily starts growing in Chloe’s right lung - I told you it wasn’t realistic - and she needs to be surrounded by fresh flowers to keep from withering herself, which proves so costly that Colin needs to find a menial job. “Daydream” tells the story of a single and rich gentleman, Colin (Romain Duris, from “The Beat that My Heart Skipped”), who falls in love with a beautiful girl, Chloe (“Amelie’s” Audrey Tautou), whom he eventually marries.

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Vian’s novel isn’t exactly what one would call realistic in tone and it seems that Gondry might have originally used this as an excuse to indulge himself in several colorful asides (many of them, it has to be said, originally imagined, at least in a sentence or two, by Vian himself). With the help of Michel Gondry and Audrey Tautou, it is set to seduce many, many more. Recently voted number ten on Le Monde's list of the 100 Books of the Century (the top ten also included works by Camus, Proust, Kafka, Hemingway, and Steinbeck), Boris Vian's novel has been an icon of French literature for fifty years―the avant-garde, populist masterpiece by one of twentieth-century Paris's most intriguing cultural figures, a touchstone for generations of revolutionary young people, a jazz-fueled, science-fiction-infused, sexy, fantastical, nouveau-decadent tear-jerker that has charmed and beguiled hundreds of thousands of readers around the world.

The story is simple: Boy meets girl boy marries girl girl falls ill on their honeymoon with a water lily on the lung, which can only be treated by being surrounded by flowers boy goes broke desperately trying to keep his true love alive.įirst published in 1947, Mood Indigo perfectly captures the feverishly creative, melancholy romance of mid-century Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The basis of the new major movie from Michel Gondry, starring Audrey Tautou, the beloved French modern classic hailed as 'the most poignant love story of our time' by Raymond Queneau

Mood indigo by boris vian