Belleville Rendez-vous director Chomet ventures out with his first live action feature, although it's easy to go through the whole of it revisualising each shot as it would appear in animated form. This is also because its world is decidedly cartoonised and parodic, with a mute piano prodigy whose life is controlled by his aunts unearthing early childhood memories of his deceased parents through being administered mushroom tea by a hippyish neighbour. This then leads to a succession of hypercoloured musical trip sequences.
It's as imaginative and sweet as you would have expected from Chomet's Tatiesque animations, but also a bit aimless in terms of the balance between timing and making an actual point with any given scene or character, which is a lot easier to paper over when having the pure fantasy of the previous medium the director worked in as a get-out device in the event of impasse. Still, it's a pleasant jaunt and may serve to instil him with more self-confidence the next time around.
6/10
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