Michel Gondry and Jim Carrey will once again make sparks together: 14 years after Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the two craziest and most endearing minds of cinema cross once again to make Kidding, a series filled with puppets and masks, but which looks above all like a very sincere confession on the part of Carrey.
We all remember this wonderful collaboration in Eternal Sunshine, when Michel Gondry had exposed the incredible facets of Jim Carrey's game, revealing an actor always more sincere and sensitive. Kidding seems to go even further in discovering behind the scenes of comedy and the comedian: Carrey plays Mr. Pickles, the host of a television show filled with puppets behind which hides a depressed man. The whole promises an ultra-personal depressive comedy, with a fantastic universe worthy of The Science of Dreams for a burlesque and childish television show.
One can't help but see behind this trailer a resonance with the life of Jim Carrey himself; a kind of autobiography in disguise. The actor seems unrecognizable, leaving aside his grimaces to wear a simpler, more human face; Carrey is done playing the clown, he removes the mask in a sincerity that recalls many passages of his interview with the Netflix documentary Jim & Andy. If we thought we were to get to know the actor, Kidding could well reveal an increasingly personal side that will make even more human the one who has always set himself the goal of making others laugh, and make them forget their problems.
The Showtime series will have 10 30-minute episodes and doesn't have a broadcast date yet; One can only hope that it is skilfully led by the two men to find a happy medium between the pathos of the subject and the fantastic of the realization.
Kidding trailer by Michel Gondry:
