‘Maya, give me the title’ Review: The Michel Gondry Stop Adventure

About three -quarters of times through a short, full of, inspiration and release of a new movie by Michel Gondry, the narrator stops a story in which squirrels for theft of hanging hanging are involved to ask, “Where can this story go?” By this moment on the madness Maya, give me a titleThe answer is clear: it can go anywhere. And that’s a good thing.

Maya is Gondry’s daughter and his creative partner in a distance of a distance that they have shared for six years, starting at 4 years, and is now distilled in this feature of an offsscent clock. Communicating with Maya’s phone and computer through many kilometers, The eternal sun of the flawless mind The director designed an inventive way to stay close: his girl would be a conceptual person, invited to change the title for a movie adventure in which she would star, and Dad would run with this idea during the next two to six weeks, creating a short motion for Maya watching.

For a large screen version, the words on the screen originally read by Mayi are delivered in the energy storytelling and character work of Pierre Niney (Star of Gondry’s previous features, A book book). The English subtitles are wisely treated with easy to read graphic simplicity as an element of the overall design. The comic book squads are reinforced by Jean-Michel Bernard’s result, plus ace selection of music supervisor Frédéric Junqua, borrowing alarm from the 50s-60s of the 60s and a playful suspension.

In order to emphasize the selection of animated shorts, Gondry added an introduction to live from a lively Maya, addressing the camera in a room that starts empty and gradually becomes fully equipped with furniture and art, and that and that and that shorts and shorts themselves grow more intricate in their physical defiant but strangely established logic, which culminated in such an epic features such as “Maya in the Sea with a bottle of ketchup.” There is no spoiler here, but let’s just say that a french fries from Belgium plays a key role in this ecological saga almost cadsoip.

Gondry also provides a summary explanation of the production process and the evolution of his self -taught technique through Niney’s narrative and demonstration on the screen. Starting with a table made using construction paper, scissors and scotch strips, then accelerated, in a smartphone, in a “movement” of the scene, graduates from a sophisticated 12 -frame settings per second, but without losing the quality of the hand gun of this paper. The palette is lively but subtle, benefits rich in secondary, not primary colors.

The characters include a cat named Dubidou, which saves Maya after being built into a giant snowball. (Cats, the narrator informs us, saves children every day, “but no one talks about it.”) There are also cats thieves – stick to your sardines, mice and computer cables! – Like the fish fish, a giant robot and a plane made of household items and birds give a key reinforcement. The solution meant to reduce the cucumbers (from where did you think these Kornihons were coming?) Accidentally miniaturizing Maya and sends it down the drain and in the sewer. In the view of the second story below the city, she and my mother think that I hit Gondry in a drum underground kit. The latter sequence is part of the “documentary” about the earthquake, with Maya as a fearless photographer.

Whether she is a photojournalist, an admiral in the sea, a siren or a false cop, there is no comprehensive program except not. The jokes are never found too far into the target of territory, and very basic riffs of movies never strain.

Gondry expands his eclectic filmography with this rejuvenating fantasy, revealing another aspect of his creativity (and acknowledging a certain coercion; when Maya refuses to secure the title for the next short, his reaction is invaluable). Taking the material beyond his original audience, the writer offers delicious meland of superior and silly for all ages. Everything can happen here, and it is best to just go with him, like a maya down a bathtub or grow into the sky on her plane for birds.