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Director
Michel Gondry
Cast
Pierre Niney,
Blanche Gardin,
Camille Rutherford,
Frankie Wallach,
Vincent Elbaz,
Dominique Valadié
Genre
Comedy,
Drama
Marc, a director, is stuck in a creative rut while working on his latest film. When he flees Paris to stay with his aunt Denise in the countryside, he tries to rid himself of his personal demons and soon finds himself filled with new ideas.
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Paste Magazine by Katarina Docalovich
A delightful, refreshing dose of hope. ... Gondry maintains his well-documented individual, idiosyncratic style (plenty of cute little animations abound), but The Book of Solutions marks a significant shift. This is the work of a man who has stared straight into his own dark abyss of personal demons, and came out the other side better for it.
The Playlist by Elena Lazic
It is refreshing and endearing to watch as Gondry lets his protagonist, a version of himself, go to the end of his thoughts, even if they apparently lead nowhere.
IGN by Martin Carr
Returning to cinema with a heartfelt look at the creative process, Michel Gondry dives back into filmmaking without a safety net, channeling all his artistic angst through an onscreen alter ego.
Screen Daily by Lee Marshall
A welcome return ... The Book of Solutions is an ode to time-wasting distractions and shelved projects, one that suggests that perhaps it’s here, rather than in the boring finished stuff, that you can find an artist’s soul.
IndieWire by David Ehrlich
"The Book of Solutions" is — first and foremost — a high-energy ode to the joys of being possessed by a creative spirit, and the pleasure that Gondry takes in telling a plot-light story that’s driven by pure invention is both palpable and contagious.
The Film Stage by Savina Petkova
Navigating the tumultuous process of making a film is hard and often comic, but The Book of Solutions is careful enough not to reduce it to caricature. On the contrary, it preserves the ineffable magic of creation, even if that comes at the expense of the formal rigor we’d usually associate with the resourceful French director.
The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
On the way to its mildly satisfying final punchline, this uneven comedy loses its thread.
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