Review of Détour

"Détour" is a pretty new 11-minute live action short film from 2017 written and directed by Oscar winner Michel Gondry and this means that it is a French French-language film with a French cast that includes Gérard Depardieu's niece among others. But the humans are just minor protagonists in here as this is the story of a trike and what happens to it, i.e. the journey it goes on, when the family that owns it accidentally doesn't take it with them on their vacation. As with Gondry, there's always fantasy elements included, most dominantly here in the form of singing fish on one occasion. But somehow here, it isn't really working out that well compared to some other projects by him from the past. But it's fine as not everyone can be a winner and maybe my personan bias, my complete lack of interest in riding bikes (or trikes) myself, may have to with me not liking for this one too much and with me not caring for the central object of the story and the people it comes across. I hope Gondry's future works will be better again as I have to give this one a thumbs-down and a negative recommendation, even if it is a close call at times. Watch something else instead.