One of our favorite scenes (ok, our favorite scene outside of some of the truly heartbreaking moments) in Michel Gondry’s “The Thorn In The Heart” is a tremendously sweet and playful scene where Gondry and his aunt Suzette visit a new modern school and the pupils in the classroom ask the former school teacher questions about what her students were like many, many years ago.
A fairly staid film overall, Gondry throws one of his few artistic flourishes in this movie when he makes the children wear green screen (it’s actually blue in this case) patches of clothing that makes parts of their bodies invisible. The whole scene is set to Charlotte Gainsbourg’s wistful “Little Monsters” from her last album 5:55 and we’ve scored it here exclusively from the good folks at Oscilloscope Laboratories because we feel a) it’s a wonderful little sequence and b) it’s incredibly emblematic to some of the film’s tone.
As noted in our Q&A with Gondry earlier today, “The Thorn In The Heart” hits theaters in limited release, starting this weekend, April 2nd in New York and on May 14th in Los Angeles (once we hear about further expansion, we’ll let you know). If you’re in New York tonight, Gondry will doing Q&A’s after the 7:30pm shows today and tomorrow at the Village East (181 -189 Second Avenue). New York magazine’s David Edelstein will moderate tonight’s Q&A, and our IndieWire pal Eugene Hernandez will moderate tomorrow’s.