Boris Vian Opened My Eyes and Broke My Back

Boris Vian Opened My Eyes and Broke My Back

2020 · 9 min · ★ 1.0 · Animation

Several years after "Mood Indigo," his adaptation of Boris Vian's 1947 novel "Froth on a Daydream," Michel Gondry returns, with his characteristic originality and uniqueness, to further explore his overwhelming experience with Vian's work. Gondry narrates this short autobiographical animation as an homage to his beloved novelist and trumpeter.

Directed by Michel Gondry · Written by Michel Gondry

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