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A bipolar filmmaker battles producers to finish his project in the Cévennes.
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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 imes, which alternate between the comic and the downright disturbing.
"'The Book of Solutions' is a film by French filmmaker Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) that addresses the complications of creative work, especially in the world of cinema. The plot follows Marc (Pierre Niney, A Perfect Man), a filmmaker whose new movie is in chaos: it's over budget, lacks a clear vision, and the investors are restless. When the studio finally wrests control of the film from him, he responds by taking the computers, disks, and his collaborators to his aunt's country house, where he intends to finish the film on his own ... if only he could stop procrastinating, shirking his responsibilities, and starting a thousand new tasks. Following Gondry's typical playful, surreal, and music video-like visual style, the movie draws inspiration from his bad experience directing Mood Indigo a decade earlier, which the director himself describes as "megalomaniacal." Perhaps he hasn't fully recovered: this film is as indulgent and unfocused as the experience that inspired it. However, there are very fun ideas and good visual comedy. If you enjoy the French filmmaker's previous work, you'll like this one."