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Michel Gondry has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
IMAX Hubble
2010
Documentary

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
Dir. Michel Gondry · With Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Dir. Michel Gondry · With Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Miou-Miou

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
Dir. Bong Joon Ho, Leos Carax, Michel Gondry · With Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito

The American comedian/actor delivers a story about the alternative Hip Hop scene. A small town Ohio mans moves to Brooklyn, New York, to throw an unprecedented block party.
Dir. Michel Gondry · With Dave Chappelle, Erykah Badu, Common

Daft Punk Unchained is the first film about the pop culture phenomenon that is Daft Punk, the duo with 12 million albums sold worldwide and seven Grammy Awards. Throughout their career Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have always resisted compromise and the established codes of show business. They have remained determined to maintain control of every link in the chain of their creative process. In the era of globalisation and social networks, they rarely speak in public and neither do they show their faces on TV. This documentary explores this unprecedented cultural revolution revealing a duo of artists on a permanent quest for creativity, independence and freedom.
Dir. Hervé Martin-Delpierre · With Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Ye

Two young friends embark on a road trip across France in a vehicle they built themselves.
Dir. Michel Gondry · With Ange Dargent, Théophile Baquet, Audrey Tautou

Marc, a bipolar and paranoid filmmaker, cannot tolerate seeing his current project picked apart by his producers. The clips he’s been able to sneak a look at lead him to fear the worst. With his editor as an accomplice, he manages to spirit away the rushes to his aunt’s place in the Cévennes, to finish the film as he envisions it. Instead, its completion is constantly postponed, as he creates endless diversions and impasses, which alternate between the comic and the downright disturbing.
Dir. Michel Gondry · With Pierre Niney, Blanche Gardin, Françoise Lebrun

A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
Dir. Michel Gondry · With Jack Black, Yasiin Bey, Danny Glover

A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
Dir. Michel Gondry · With Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh

Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the civilized ways of the world, Lila fights to preserve the man’s natural state. In the power struggle that ensues, an unusual love triangle emerges.
Dir. Michel Gondry · With Tim Robbins, Patricia Arquette, Rhys Ifans

Britt Reid, the heir to the largest newspaper fortune in Los Angeles, is a spoiled playboy who has been, thus far, happy to lead an aimless life. After his father dies, Britt meets Kato, a resourceful company employee. Realizing that they have the talent and resources to make something of their lives, Britt and Kato join forces as costumed crime-fighters to bring down the city's most-powerful criminal, Chudnofsky.
Dir. Michel Gondry · With Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz