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The Book of Solutions

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The Book of Solutions

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| Release Date: TBA | Not Rated

Starring: Alex Martin, Blanche Gardin, Camille Rutherford, Dominique Valadié, Françoise Lebrun, Frankie Wallach, Lucas Noël, Mourad Boudaoud, Pierre Niney, Sacha Bourdo, Sting, Vincent Elbaz

Summary: Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away the rushes to his aunt’s place in the Cévennes, to finish the film as he envisions it. Instead,Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away the rushes to his aunt’s place in the Cévennes, to finish the film as he envisions it. Instead, its completion is constantly postponed, as he creates endless diversions and impasses, which alternate between the comic and the downright disturbing.… Expand

Director: Michel Gondry

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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Paste Magazine

Katarina Docalovich

May 27, 2023

A delightful, refreshing dose of hope. ... Gondry maintains his well-documented individual, idiosyncratic style (plenty of cute little animations abound), but The Book of Solutions marks a significant shift. This is the work of a man who has stared straight into his own dark abyss of personal demons, and came out the other side better for it. Read full review

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The Playlist Elena Lazic

May 27, 2023

It is refreshing and endearing to watch as Gondry lets his protagonist, a version of himself, go to the end of his thoughts, even if they apparently lead nowhere. Read full review

70

Screen Daily

Lee Marshall

May 27, 2023

A welcome return ... The Book of Solutions is an ode to time-wasting distractions and shelved projects, one that suggests that perhaps it’s here, rather than in the boring finished stuff, that you can find an artist’s soul. Read full review

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IGN

Martin Carr

Oct 19, 2023

Returning to cinema with a heartfelt look at the creative process, Michel Gondry dives back into filmmaking without a safety net, channeling all his artistic angst through an onscreen alter ego. Read full review

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IndieWire David Ehrlich

May 27, 2023

"The Book of Solutions" is — first and foremost — a high-energy ode to the joys of being possessed by a creative spirit, and the pleasure that Gondry takes in telling a plot-light story that’s driven by pure invention is both palpable and contagious. Read full review

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The Film Stage Savina Petkova

May 27, 2023

Navigating the tumultuous process of making a film is hard and often comic, but The Book of Solutions is careful enough not to reduce it to caricature. On the contrary, it preserves the ineffable magic of creation, even if that comes at the expense of the formal rigor we’d usually associate with the resourceful French director. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter

Sheri Linden

May 27, 2023

On the way to its mildly satisfying final punchline, this uneven comedy loses its thread. Read full review

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