First Clip From Gondry's THE WE AND THE I Is A Strange Sort Of Anti-Marketing

While watching the first clip from Michel Gondry's The We And The I - a film shot entirely with non actors on a bus - I was reminded, in a very negative way, of an interview ScreenAnarchy conducted with Ole Bornedal following the premiere of Deliver Us From Evil at the Toronto International Film Festival. Said Bornedal of the role of the filmmaker / story teller:

When I get together with younger directors in master classes or whatever, I always ask them "Why would you want to show reality as reality? We are story tellers.  It's a long tradition.  A long tradition, all the way back to sitting in the cave around the fire.  The story teller wasn't the guy that was telling the other guys around the fire about how to light a fire and how to go out and hunt.  The story telling is about how the fire came to earth thanks to a big god with wings.  That's fantasy."  Why would I want to make a film about a family sitting around the kitchen talking about granddad's tumor, and then he dies and they go to the funeral and that's two hours?  Why would I want to tell a story like that?  Why not tell a story where granddad dies and then he flies out the window and he disappears and you try to catch him?  That's what storytelling is about.  In my opinion that is what all movie making is about: to put a crack in reality and show that the world is somehow bigger then just what you see.  Because I don't believe in what I see.  I don't believe in it.  I think it's boring and I think it's crap and I think it's a lie.

Under most circumstances, throughout the overwhelming majority of his career, it seems abundantly clear that Michel Gondry would agree with Bornedal's sentiment one hundred percent. Except The We And The I is not most circumstances. It is Gondry very deliberately trying to do something different and more 'true to life'. And if it's all like this one clip then I have to agree with Bornedal's assessment of reality at the end of the above quote.

Check the clip below.