If the idea of a pharmacy where silver carrots are turned into pills by a contraption that’s half-machine and half-rabbit sounds like something insufferably quirky and twee, then you won’t like this version any better than the previous one. But their post-marital bliss is cut short when, on their honeymoon, a water lily starts growing in Chloe’s right lung - I told you it wasn’t realistic - and she needs to be surrounded by fresh flowers to keep from withering herself, which proves so costly that Colin needs to find a menial job. “Daydream” tells the story of a single and rich gentleman, Colin (Romain Duris, from “The Beat that My Heart Skipped”), who falls in love with a beautiful girl, Chloe (“Amelie’s” Audrey Tautou), whom he eventually marries. Vian’s novel isn’t exactly what one would call realistic in tone and it seems that Gondry might have originally used this as an excuse to indulge himself in several colorful asides (many of them, it has to be said, originally imagined, at least in a sentence or two, by Vian himself).
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