Michel Gondry takes the reins on The Green Hornet, released this weekend, so we thought it would be a good time to tell you just who Mr Gondry is and what he's done and most of all, why you should take notice of this French auteur. Gondry was a music video director to begin with and has worked with The White Stripes, Daft Punk and The Chemical Brothers among others. He also directed commercials before eventually making the move into film with his debut feature Human Nature, starring Patricia Arquette and Tim Robbins. However, it was with his second feature, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that he achieved more widespread recognition. The film centres on a couple who erase their memories of each other after they break up, only to find they want to hold onto the memories as they are erased. The film was widely praised by critics and showed Jim Carrey at his dramatic best, and was regarded as one of the most highly-praised films of 2004. The use of sub-conscious and memories spilled over to his 2006 film The Science of Sleep, where Gael Garcia Bernal starred as the man obsessed with imagination and dreams shows a woman his world. This was a return to the French language and used stop-motion and papier mache to show the dream world, a far sight away from the Inception dream world. Be Kind Rewind was the most high profile film up until now, and that featured Jack Black and Mos Def as two guys working in a rental store who manage to erase all of the tapes. They then embark on re-filming all the films for their main customer. The film gained mainly positive reviews. It is with Green Hornet though that Michel Gondry makes his major studio debut, although he has admitted that this is a Seth Rogen film rather than a Michel Gondry film (Rogen co-wrote it with his writing partner Evan Goldberg), and so far the film has gotten some mixed reviews, but most admit that it shows that not all superhero films need to be dark, some can be funny and here's your prime example. Be sure to check out Gondry's back catalogue, especially Eternal Sunshine, because here we have a director with a flair for the slightly quirky. Big things are still to come, be sure of that. FemaleFirst - James Butlin