The basis of the new major movie from Michel Gondry, starring Audrey
Tautou, the beloved French modern classic hailed as the most poignant
love story of our time by Raymond Queneau
The story is simple: Boy meets girl; boy marries girl; girl falls ill on
their honeymoon with a water lily on the lung, which can only be treated
by being surrounded by flowers; boy goes broke desperately trying to
keep his true love alive.
First published in 1947, Mood Indigo perfectly captures the feverishly
creative, melancholy romance of mid-century Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Recently voted number ten on Le Monde's list of the 100 Books of the
Century (the top ten also included works by Camus, Proust, Kafka,
Hemingway, and Steinbeck), Boris Vian's novel has been an icon of French
literature for fifty years--the avant-garde, populist masterpiece by one
of twentieth-century Paris's most intriguing cultural figures, a
touchstone for generations of revolutionary young people, a jazz-fueled,
science-fiction-infused, sexy, fantastical, nouveau-decadent tear-jerker
that has charmed and beguiled hundreds of thousands of readers around
the world. With the help of Michel Gondry and Audrey Tautou, it is set
to seduce many, many more.