仕事をしなくても生活できる財産があり気ままに生きていたコランは、純粋なクロエと付き合うことに。その後、友人たちに見守られながら結婚した二人は幸福に満ちあふれた生活を送っていたが、ある日クロエが肺にスイレンが咲くという奇病に侵されてしまう。ばく大な治療費を稼ぐために仕事をし始めたコランの人生は徐々に狂い出し、クロエも日増しに弱っていく。
映画化された原作や関連書籍を読んで、映像との違いや独自の世界観を楽しみましょう。
製作費: $16,040,770 (24億円)
興行収入: $10,435,322 (16億円)
推定収支: $-5,605,448 (-8億円)
※製作費・興行収入はTMDBのデータを参照しています。収支は(興行収入 - 製作費)で算出したFindKey独自の推定値であり、広告宣伝費や諸経費は含まれません (1ドル=150円換算)。
監督: Michel Gondry
脚本: Boris Vian / Michel Gondry / Luc Bossi
音楽: Étienne Charry
制作: Xavier Castano / Luc Bossi / Fabrice Delville
撮影監督: クリストフ・ボーカルヌ
制作会社: Brio Films / StudioCanal / Anton Capital Entertainment / Hérodiade
There's a scene in this film where a naked "Colin" (Romain Duris) is paid then sort of folded over a large pile of mud so his body can insulate and help the snails to breed! That might give you an idea as to the surreality of this comedic drama. He is a wealthy man with a pair of white leather brogues who, quite literally, have a life of their own. He lives in what looks like a converted, luxury, railway carriage together with his factotum "Nicolas" (Omar Sy) and a recently poached girlfriend "Chloé" (Audrey Tautou) who is dying of a rather peculiar disease involving her lungs and a flower. Desperate to save her, he discovers that the only way to do that is to keep her permanently surrounded by other fresh flowers - and so following the philosophy of his mentor "Jean-Sol Partre" he takes us on some daft adventures with animate gadgets and gizmos - some with human or animal characteristics that wouldn't have looked out of place in "City of Lost Children" (1995). I wasn't familiar with Boris Vian's original novel, but I did enjoy this engagingly fantastic adaptation by Michel Gondry and the chemistry between Duris and Tautou is enjoyable to watch as the story takes it's own sweet time to make any headway - in any sort of traditional sense. It's helped along enormously by the quirky score from Étienne Charry and the production looks like a great deal of thought has gone in to making it quite so eccentrically haphazard. I found the story itself less important than the characterisations and I'm usually a fan of Duris - so wasn't disappointed. It's not for everyone, but I liked (most of) it.
