L'écume des jours

2013 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Romance

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 62% · 109 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 53% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 17394 17.4K

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Plot summary

A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.

Director

Michel Gondry Photo
Michel Gondry

Top cast

Sacha Bourdo Photo
Sacha Bourdo as La souris
Omar Sy Photo
Omar Sy as Nicolas
Audrey Tautou Photo
Audrey Tautou as Chloé
Charlotte Le Bon Photo
Charlotte Le Bon as Isis
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
1.17 GB
1280*682
French 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles
24 fps
2 hr 10 min
Seeds 1
2.41 GB
1920*1024
French 5.1
Not Rated
Subtitles
24 fps
2 hr 10 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

There's a scene in this film where a

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.
Reviewed by 5 / 10

Doesn't satisfy.

First of all, i must admit that I didn't read the book. So perhaps that's the reason I didn't get the purpose of this film. I was attending this movie with great expectations, I love the work of Michel Gondry and I couldn't wait to see Audrey Tatou and Omar Sy playing together. The special effects were great, and as I said before Michel Gondry is one of my favorites. But here's the thing, I was unhappy during the movie. I couldn't develop sympathy for the main characters, because the storyline felt missing too often. Combine that with the weird dialogs and the straying from one scene to another without a proper connection, you'll get why. The dialog, and I understand that this was adopted from the book, but in this movie it just didn't made sense. I couldn't feel what I wanted to feel about this movie, I wanted to like it so badly but I couldn't. I feel the film was more focused on the special effects than on the actual character development and storyline.
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