NYFF 2015: Michel Gondry’s Microbe & Gasoline

Microbe & Gasoline screens at 12pm on Sunday, October 4 and at 9pm on Monday, October 5 in the main slate of the 53rd New York Film Festival. The film is currently without US distribution.
Following his unequaled triumph in the form of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry has sometimes been treated as an insufferably twee handcrafter lost in his own whimsy without the leavening agent of Charlie Kaufman. But perhaps even moreso than fellow stylist Wes Anderson, Gondry’s