MICHEL GONDRY, DO IT YOURSELF

If Méliès had a son, it would be Michel Gondry. A brilliant jack-of-all-trades whose eccentric talent convinced the creative elite of international pop music to entrust him with his music videos (Björk, the Rolling Stones, Daft Punk, The White Stripes, Beck, etc.) before allowing him to chart his own course in Hollywood—without ever renouncing his rather crazy style—and to become one of the rare Oscar-winning French filmmakers (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind).
The brilliant French underground clipper, turned American filmmaker, has managed to escape the embarrassing stereotype of the little French employee in the beautiful country of Hollywood, because his cinema lives elsewhere.