Gone Dry
01. Apr, 2010 
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L’épine Dans Le Coeur
(A Thorn In The Heart)
Sorta Not Really Capturing The Gondrys
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How awesome is director Michel Gondry?  WAY AWESOME!  So if he’s awesome, then his family must be too, or at least a smidgen awesome, right? RIGHT???  Gondry steps aside from his made-up world of wonder and whimsy and turns the camera on his family, who are… sans wonder and whimsy.  They are French people, which is almost the same thing as normal people, but they’re French, so they say things in French and occasionally drink wine!  The focus here is on Michel’s Aunt Suzette, a former schoolteacher that everyone from the fam to her former pupils gush over about how juss darn lovely she is.  How lovely! Suzette tells us stories and guides us to places she’s been before. How lovely! How lovely? Maybe if we were a part of the Gondry clan and wanted to document how lovely Auntie Suzette was for future generations of Gondrys, but for the rest of us? Snoozefest ’87! There’s no drama to be found (OK, there’s some tension betweem her and son Jean-Yves, but what family doesn’t have tension?), and mos disappointingly, little insight into what makes Michel Gondry, Michel Gondry.  Thorn reeks a bit of the manfucated nostaglia that was found in his Be Kind Rewind, yet without any of the Jack Black/Mos Def sing movie theme song distractions.  Wish JB & MD came along and sweded the hell outta this not so prickly thorn
Making/Faking It: Gondry’s music videos are beyond the knees bees, but what about the making of em? watch how 4 of his mos famous/trickiest were done
Verdictgo: Sum Merit But No Stinkin Badges
Thorn opens tomorrow in NY only and elsewhere elsewhen
and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…
