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I saw this by accident, with a friend who’d just had some terrible news about a TV movie she is producing (change of regime high up in the network means all the projects on the development slate, even the ones with a theoretical green light, get canned, or run into unfeasible demands.  Typical. But not good, seeing as she has spent a year setting this up and was just about ready to go.)

We nearly missed the start of the movie, we were sitting in a bar lamenting the terribleness of senior executives, and she was angry as I have ever seen her. We ran to the cinema, hit our seats at the moment the movie rolled - and were instantly seduced by the most inventive, most charming, most wistful, most BRILLIANT love story I can remember. Think a kind of underground “Amelie” or “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” with a punk sensibility, and you’re close, but Michel Gondry (who directed Spotless Mind) is on his own roll here, so you just need to surrender to something that should make you very, very happy indeed…

Here’s what the Guardian says:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_review/0,,2013745,00.html

It’s a bit of a fancy pants review for a beautifully charming film, but it kind does the job.

Strongly recommended!