I waited more than nine years before I finally watched this movie. I was aware of it as early as in the first half of 2013 when it was first released and I wanted to see it then, but for a multitude of small reasons I never got around to do it. Now, after all that time I am glad I did it only recently. I would've never understood this story in 2013 when I was but an optimistic high-schooler. There is a chance that I didn't knew who Jean-Paul Sartre was back then! Now, after studying philosophy academically for quite some time my understanding of this movie is, understandably, much different to what it could be back then. The theme of the great, life-shattering decline, of the total loss of optimism, the misery that starts in a state of bliss - all that resonates with me deeply. "Mood Indigo" may seem inconceivable at the beginning, as the movie likes to throw at the viewer mountains of visual absurd as amusing as it is distracting. Nevertheless at its core the movie tells a story that is far, far removed from that smokescreen of abstract cinematic humor. The core of the story feels terribly, heart-breakingly real, so much so that we comprehend it instinctively, nobody needs to explain it to us. Descent from wealth to squalor, from health to death - that's all that is to it. A story so common that almost banal, but nevertheless human. Underrated is what this movie is.

I really enjoyed this film for its surreal aspects. Its very much a surreal French film. There is quite a lot of music and the characters are pretty quirky and animated, in terms of their actions, not in terms of being actual cartoons of course. I would say its an animated film but people would assume that means CGI or painted imagery, which this doesn't. It's hard to describe what it is - a sort of cardboard/live form of animation. It's quite bizarre and so I suppose it won't appeal to everyone but I thought it was pretty entertaining and if I had to suggest another film that's at all similar in terms of the type of animation used, I'd say perhaps Anomalisa, only this film features real actors in person. It's a very imaginative plot and Audrey Tautou does a great job as the girlfriend, Chloe. This is a film that you have to see to (try to?) understand. It struck me as being a bit like a sort of mythical or fairy tale dream of a film, of sorts. I think its similar to other films the director (Michel Gondry) has done before and its fair to say that his work is somewhat of an acquired taste. It certainly makes for a nice piece of escapism, if nothing else!. It may be viewed as a bit indulgent by some but personally I enjoyed the vast majority of the journey it took me on, so if it sounds good to you, then I'd recommend it, certainly.

Wow. Gondry's imagination in this one is in over-drive. Relentless. Until it slows down… and with good reason. Cleverly put together.

For anyone who has experienced what it is to have a loved one with a terminal disease, this movie is the perfect picture of how that feels, how it consumes all the happiness around, and it's nones fault. That's why I loved this movie.

Exhaustingly noisy and intense with little sense behind, I couldn't finish.

It was weird and broke many rules. A movie that didn't explain it self or care about the audience it seemed. Refreshing, silly, deeply felt work of artistic sideways thinking, setting and quirk. Wondrous. One of my all time favourite movies from the first scene.

Mesmerizing. It seemed like a remake of Tatou's "Amelie", at first, but then went in a very different place. The use of music to carry the theme and action seduced me.

Full-on whacky French whimsy, so far out there that the usually efficiently cutesy Tautou just looks a bit lost and out of her depth. The progression to melancholy and then existential darkness is quite effective, but not rewarding, rather it's deflating and depressing.

Another reason to watch Foreign films. A bizarre and unique movie. A good love story that ends tragic. The visuals are very interesting with the use of a lot of stop motion animation.

Just din't watch the movie without having read the book... You won't understand anything!

Far too pushy with its surrealism, which is disappointing from Michel Gondry.

Uma história simples de amor que ocorre num mundo surreal, cheio de geringonças que expressam a imaginação das pessoas nos objetos do dia a dia.

Two young people meet, fall in love and marry, then she develops a terminal illness. However, in the hands of Gondry, it's a delight to watch.

Boris Vian's classic, extravagant and surreal love story gets an overwhelming screen adaptation by Gondry who spares no displays of expert stop-motion and intricate special effects. If sensory overload is your thing then look no further because plot and characters seem secondary here.

Imagine que o mundo real foi invadido pela física (e a lógica) dos desenhos de animação no seu sentido mais bucólico. Onde a paixão é o suficiente para desenrolar qualquer novo relacionamento, e a dança é o suficiente para alterar as paredes de um quarto. Imagine, enfim, que estamos em um filme completamente tomado pelas loucuras inventivas de Michel Gondry.

Beautiful, cute and sad movie. Maybe it's all style but substance, it still gave me half hour of glittering happiness and an hour of gloomy sadness, with an agreeable but tearful ending. I enjoyed it very much. And when the happy times pass, you probably can do nothing but finding a little irresistable warm and heartbeat skipping throb looking back into the faded painting like memory.

So much pointless whimsy. Creative multimedia films like "Bunny and the Bull" and "The Science of Sleep" use fantastical papier mache set pieces to represent some kind of distance between the characters and their imagined lives, but this film's twee arts and crafts hardly pertain to the story. The conflict indicated in the IMDb synopsis doesn't even come until halfway through the movie.

A man and woman fall in love, but then she inhales a snowflake and starts to die. As much as I loved Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I obviously hated The Green Hornet and didn't much care for The Science of Sleep. So I guess you could say that director Michel Gondry's particular brand of quirk is hit and miss but mostly miss for me. The special effects-laden morning routines of the protagonist and the goofy will-they-won't-they-but-you-really-know-they-will-because-plot courtship doesn't do anything to charm, and when the second act death march starts, the quirk takes a turn to the maudlin. When the film ends, there's not much to say about it besides "Well ... shit," and I didn't know whether I was describing the events or the film. Overall ... well ... shit.

Some great surreal quirks but the film as a whole falls flat as the narrative doesn't give you anything to sink your teeth into. It's almost like the quirkiness is there to distract you from the rest of it.

This film was fascinating and strange. Tons of imagination and vision, yet I'm not sure what the takeaway was in the end. Thought-provoking for sure.