There are two topless models inside the car. Fanservice Extra: Colin and Chloe pass by a car in a showroom.Empathic Environment: Colin's apartment grows steadily dirtier and mold-ridden after Chloe falls ill, and there's also the matter of Nicolas's Rapid Aging.Driven to Suicide: Chick kills himself after Alise murders Jean-Sol Partre.Dramatic Drop: A woman at a party evidently likes Nicolas, as shown when she dramatically drops a whole tray of hors d'oevures and rushes over to embrace him.Downer Ending: Chloe dies, Chick kills himself, and Colin is left in despair.Chick goes flying through the door and crashes against some shelving on the far wall. As he lowers his shoulder and charges, the pharmacist opens the door. Chick prepares himself to bust the door open. Door Judo: Colin and Chick go to a pharmacy for Chloe's medicine but it is closed.Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Taken to an absurd extreme when Jean-Sol Partre gives a speech from a sort of stand/lectern that is actually a gigantic pipe.Deliberately Monochrome: As the mood grows more and more grim as the film progresses to its Downer Ending, the color palette gets grayer and grayer, until the last scenes are actually shot in black and white.Body Horror: Chloe is killed by a water lily, which takes root and grows in her lung.'This story is completely true since I made it up from beginning to end.' Based on a True Story: Subverted with the opening dedication, a quote from Boris Vian.The mood of the film takes a sharp turn, going from shiny, joyful technicolor to darkness and death. However, at the midpoint of the film, Chloe takes ill. Meanwhile, Chick has fallen in love with Alise, niece of Colin's live-in chef Nicolas ( Omar Sy).Īll of that takes place against a whimsical background that features deeply surrealistic, bizarre imagery. They fall in love, and after a whirlwind courtship, they get married. One day, his friend Chick invites him to a party, where he meets an enchantingly beautiful brunette, Chloe ( Audrey Tautou). The novel has the same French title as the movie but in English is titled Froth on the Daydream.Ĭolin ( Romain Duris) is an Idle Rich young man who has little to do to fill his days other than inventing stuff like the 'pianocktail'-a piano with the keys connected to various bottles of alcohol that makes different cocktails depending on what notes one plays. Mood Indigo (L'écume des jours-'Froth of the Days') is a 2013 film from France directed by Michel Gondry and based on a novel by Boris Vian.

Mood Indigo by Boris Vian