Blanche Gardin: 2 years later, she finds this great French director for a very nice animated film

What is it talking about?

Afterwards, Maya give me a title, the rest of the adventures of Maya told by Blanche Gardin. Maya and her dad live in two different countries. To maintain the link with her daughter and continue telling her stories, her dad asks her every month “Maya, give me a title”. From this title, he makes her a cartoon of which she is the heroine. Michel Gondry then gives life to a poetic and fun journey that will make young people dream … and smile the big ones.

We take (almost) the same …

Destiny is as capricious as the cinema world is unpredictable, and Michel Gondry knows something about it, he who drew from his misadventures that occurred during the post-production of the Ecume of Days to give birth to the Book of Solutions in 2023. In an ideal world, the filmmaker should have present his biopic on the youth of Pharrell Williams this year, but the feature, although abandoned. While waiting to know how the director will be inspired by this obstacle in another project, he still returns to our rooms this Wednesday, June 18.

With a film that summons her love for cinema, animation, daughter and resourceful. And whose release he had announced a few months ago, when Maya, give me a title arrived in our rooms: “We have already planned another film of which Blanche Gardin will ensure the narration “he said then. And it didn't take long to discover the result. After Pierre Niney, it is his partner of the book of solutions that gives voice in this new salvo of eccentric stories, poetic and sometimes without tail or head that the author of Eternal Sunnshine of the Spotless Mind offers us.

The Jokers

After a flashback introduction (or “Moment of the past that we see”as specified in a card) intended to remind us of the concept of these animated stories at the speed of twelve images per second and imagined from a starting point given by his daughter, Michel Gondry makes his science of imagination again, cutting (in every sense of the word) and the play on words in Maya, give me another title. Not without making some references to classics of the 7th art (2001 or Apocalypse Now) and speak a little more about the act of creation, with a hand of flesh and bones which draws or written during the first minutes.

For just over an hour, we follow the friendship between Maya and a octopus, the adventures of Ticlou the invisible bird and investigate the mystery surrounding things that disappear without reason, to the sound of the voice of Blanche Gardin, which ensures both the narration as the dubbing of the different characters, while the daughter of Michel Gondry appears regularly, face camera, to announce the title of each new story.

From what age can we see the film?

As in the first part, there is still talk of cinema and family with this feature film “Drawn and realized” by Michel Gondry. And the whole is again for all audiences, because parents and children will have a hard time sulking their pleasure in front of these funny sketches. With the same limit as in Maya, give me a title, namely that certain jokes or references can escape spectators under the age of 8, but these are only details within a more than easily accessible set that could give birth, who knows, vocations among the young audience.

“We can imagine everything with a drawing”also said Michel Gondry at the Annecy festival, of which he was the guest of honor this year. “It is a trivial gesture, but with a paper and a pencil we can do everything.” It's up to you to play now, either thanks to this feature film, or by going (re) discovering his work to the Cinémathèque, which projects his films until June 27.