Vian’s L’Écume des jours is variously translated as The Foam of Days, The Scum of Days, or Froth on the Daydream. Take your pick. It was filmed by Charles Belmont as Spray of Days (1968) and retold as an opera by Edison Denisov (1986). It was without a picnic until Michel Gondry added one to his screenplay. It’s a corker. (Try it out Picnics on film.org.)
Featured Image: Picnic according to Michel Gondry. Colin (Romain Duris) pours wine for Chloé (Audrey Tatou) While the chef Nicholas (Omar Sy) happily looks on.
See Boris Vian’s L’Écume des jours (1947), translated by Stanley Chapman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013; Michel Gondry. Mood Indigo [L’Écume des jours] (2013). Screenplay is by Luc Bossi and Michel Gondry, based on Boris Vian’s L’Écume des jours.