The couple’s honeymoon, filmed in split-screen with sunshine on one side and rain on the other, further confirms that any emotional throughline - crucially important as a binding element in a story as surreal as this one - has taken a definite backseat to audiovisual pizzazz for pizzazz’s sake. It’s left entirely to Duris’ and Tautou’s glances to suggest their characters’ quickly growing attachment, which will finally lead them to the altar, where the officiating priest (a miscast Vincent Rottiers) of course makes his entrance via space shuttle. Their first get-togethers - a dance at the party, a visit to an ice rink and a trip across Paris in a cloud-shaped capsule - are beautifully and fancifully conceived, but they already signal that Gondry is more interested in the technical challenge of crafting imaginative setpieces (think elongated limbs, shoes with a mind of their own, weird masks, etc.) than in investing them with emotional meaning. At a party, Colin meets the pixieish vision that is Chloe (Tautou), a “girl like a Duke Ellington tune” with whom he falls head-over-heels in love. The central story focuses on the well-off Colin (Duris), who lives in a fabulous rooftop apartment overlooking Paris with his chef and lawyer, Nicolas ( Omar Sy, “The Intouchables”).
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