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The Book of Solutions

Summary Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away the rushes to his aunt’s place in the Cévennes, to finish the film as he envisions it. Instea...

Directed By: Michel Gondry

Written By: Michel Gondry

  • The Jokers
  • 1 h 42 m
  • The Jokers
  • 1 h 42 m

The Book of Solutions

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
65
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Summary Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away the rushes to his aunt’s place in the Cévennes, to finish the film as he envisions it. Instea...

Directed By: Michel Gondry

Written By: Michel Gondry

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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71% Positive
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29% Mixed
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85
May 27, 2023
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.
By Katarina Docalovich FULL REVIEW
83
May 27, 2023
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.
By Elena Lazic FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 19, 2023
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.
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70
May 27, 2023
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.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW
67
May 27, 2023
"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.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
58
May 27, 2023
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.
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50
May 27, 2023
On the way to its mildly satisfying final punchline, this uneven comedy loses its thread.
By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Partizan Films, Canal+, Ciné+, Indéfilms 11, Cinémage 17, Cofinova 18, Cinéaxe 4, Région Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers of Music (SACEM)
Duration 1 h 42 m
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Cannes Director's Fortnight
• 1 Nomination

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