In Dreams and in Love There are No Impossibilities: Michel Gondry’s Cinema and the Aesthetics of the Oneiric
In Dreams and in Love There are No Impossibilities: Michel Gondry’s Cinema and the Aesthetics of the Oneiric
This chapter by Bruno Surace offers an overarching framework for mapping an oneiric aesthetic across Gondry’s films. This chapter begins with a consideration of Gondry’s first feature, the English-language film Human Nature (2001), written by Charlie Kaufman. This chapter goes on to argue that in all of Gondry’s films, dreams embody three distinct but interrelated dimensions: part of the film’s diegesis, part of a broader symbolic or political system which is not purely narrative, or as a frame for innovative modules of formal film construction, which serves to connect content to a precise aesthetics of the oneiric.
Keywords: Michel Gondry, Human Nature (2001), Charlie Kaufman, Oneiric aesthetic, Dreams, Love
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