Michel Gondry’s L’Ecume des jours (Mood Indigo) will open this year's Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, The Hollywood Reporter said.
The movie stars Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris in an adaptation of a Boris Vian novel. Billed as a poetic fantasy about making sacrifices for a loved one, the movie marks Gondry's return to filmmaking after last year's The We and The I.
Mood Indigo was produced by StudioCanal in association with Brio Films.
Karlovy Vary Film Festival president Jiri Bartoska described Gondry as "one of the most original filmmakers on the current international scene."
Oscar-winning producer-writer-director Oliver Stone will receive a lifetime achievement award at KVIFF this year. Polish director Agnieszka Holland will head the main jury.
Festival organizers also unveiled the line-up which promises U.K. filmmaker Ben Wheatley's latest A Field In England, billed as a psychedelic trip into magic and madness set in the English Civil War of the mid-17th century.
Also vying for the laurels a second time will be Israeli filmmaker Yossi Madmony, who won over the jury two years ago with his film Restoration. His latest drama, A Place In Heaven takes a new look at the father-son relationship, this time against a backdrop of four decades of Israeli history.
