Michel Gondry

Last week at Cannes I encountered a familiar problem: standing in line for a crowded screening and getting turned away at the door. Read More

Perhaps once regarded as a quirky, whimsical visualist known for his eye-popping music videos ( Bjork, Beck, White Stripes ) and his often pop-surrealist indie films (" Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind ,"" The Science of Sleep "), French filmmaker Michel Gondry has really challenged the boilerplate concept of who he is as an artist in recent years. Read More

As a general rule, I try to learn as little as possible about the films here before I see them. Read More

Michel Gondry talks to Indiewire about his latest film, The We and the I , which centers on a group of Bronx high school kids taking the public bus and features improvisation from a group of non-actors. Read More

Shrugging off the studio straitjacket of The Green Hornet and breezing back into territory that's far more accommodating to his playful visual aesthetic and loose-limbed approach to narrative (think 2006's The Science of Sleep ), Michel Gondry takes an idiosyncratic, funny, unexpectedly poignant snapshot of American youth in The We and the I. Rambling and unpolished, the film has a scrappy charm that springs organically from the characters and their stories rather than being artificially coaxed. Read More

Oscar-winning Frenchman Michel Gondry on Thursday premiered his latest work -- which follows a bunch of schoolkids on a bus through the Bronx -- at the Cannes film festival. Read More

Like some Gallic version of Tim Burton , Michel Gondry 's initial promise has given way to a series of films whose diminishing returns demonstrate that he's a talented visualist without the capacity for, or worse, any interest in, telling an actual story. Read More

Michel Gondry used to have a style that was easy to pigeonhole. Read More

Michel Gondry's newest cinematic project sheds some light on the Bronx, but not necessarily "Jenny From The Block's" side of the story. Read More

Michel Gondry will be premiering his latest film, THE WE AND THE I , at the Cannes Film Festival in a couple of weeks and there are still mysteries as to what the movie is actually about. Read More