![]() ![]() A visual joyride and escape from reality. Jazz, humour, absurdity, irony, freedom from care as well as bitterness, escapes into fantastic worlds, the sparkling colours of topsy-turvy reality, a desire to know the meaning of life. The illness has a fatal impact on the lovers' carefree world. Vian maintains a kind of baroque humor throughout, but puns and word games (unfortunately badly translated) shade into black humor which at the novel's end becomes a Kafkaesque surrealism that we find frightening rather than funny. But fragile Chloé, who reminds Colin of his beloved blues by Duke Ellington, falls ill with an mysterious disease: a water lily blooms in her lungs. One day, Colin meets the love of his life, Chloé (Audrey Tautou). Colin is a wealthy young aristocrat, a slim, innocent creature who loves easily. ![]() ![]() The idealistic and inventive Colin (Romain Duris) lives in a city where cars have their steering wheel in the trunk, people skate backwards, and a piano mixes cocktails, seeing only his friends Nicolas (Omar Sy) and Chicka (Gad Elmaleh). The world of Mood Indigo is a stained-glass cartoon kind of a place, where the piano dispenses cocktails, the kitchen mice dance to the sound of sunbeams, and the air is three parts jazz. This cult novel – considered unfilmable by many readers – by French writer, poet, musician, playwright, and bohemian, Boris Vian, enthralled entire generations with its unfettered fantasy. ![]()
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