![]() ![]() The only thing that seems to help is to be surrounded by hundreds of flowers, which rapidly bankrupts Colin, whose only marketable invention seems to be the “pianocktail,” a keyboard instrument that assembles mixed drinks based on the music you play. Chloé’s malady, the symptoms of which resemble the sort of generic wasting diseases common to Old Hollywood melodramas, is caused by a water lily growing in her lung. The plot of the book - the title of which has been variously, and somewhat meaninglessly, translated as “Froth on the Daydream” and “Foam of the Daze” - concerns the romance between a young, independently wealthy inventor named Colin and his beautiful bride, Chloé, who is stricken by a mysterious illness shortly after their honeymoon. Directed by Michel Gondry (“ Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”) from a script he wrote with Luc Bossi, it is a droll, demented and slightly depressive tale of doomed love. “ Mood Indigo,” the latest of three movie adaptations of Vian’s book that have been made since 1968, is characterized by a similarly schizoid ambition. Judging by a new film based on Vian’s 1946 masterpiece, Halpern’s description wasn’t entirely a diss. In a 2006 New Yorker essay on the late French writer Boris Vian (1920-1959), Dan Halpern described Vian’s “ L’Écume des jours” as a “deeply silly” piece of work. ![]()
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