Oh, the ever tricky omnibus film. As Lauren detailed in her review of Tokyo!, three very different auteurs were ushered off to the Japanese capital to offer their takes on the city which bursts from the seams with post fire-bomb post-modernity. I had the chance this week to catch up with two of the three, the long dormant Leo Carax and the irrepressible Michel Gondry, to talk about the inspiration for their shorts, the specific difficulties of translations and what really motivated Michel to tackle Gabrielle Bell’s Cecil and Jordan in New York. …Read more
The producers of Tokyo!, three short films by two Frenchmen and a South Korean, aim to do for Japan’s metropolis what New York Stories did for the Big Apple or Paris Je T’Aime for the City of Lights. That the two Frenchmen are indie darling Michel Gondry and former film critic/Pola X director Leos Carax, and the South Korean Bong Joon-Ho, who made an international splash with The Host, would seem to lend these three very different takes on a single subject some serious cache. Unfortunately, only two directors rise to the occasion, leaving a gaping hole in an otherwise thoughtful trilogy.
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Twitch has a trailer for Tokyo!, the omnibus film with contributions from Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon Ho which will premiere next week at Cannes (ed. note: ahhh! I’m going to the South of France next week!). As far as trailers go, it’s not much of anything––it’s basically just footage of the directors working, interspersed with the title flashing on the screen––but I know a lot of people are excited about this movie, so I thought it was worth a re-blog.
