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Production Year: 2006 - Drama - Director: Michel Gondry - Original Language: English\French - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Miou Miou, Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat more

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For his first feature since 2004's ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, French writer/director Michel Gondry applies his highly inventive cinematic vision to THE SCIENCE OF...
more...SLEEP. Largely set in the very active subconscious mind of Stephane (Gael Garcia Bernal), the movie bounces back and forth between his vivid dreams and mundane real life, which involves living in a Parisian apartment owned by his mother (Miou-Miou) and working at an office with a strange crew of characters, including the crass Guy (Alain Chabat). When Stephane meets Stephanie, a shy neighbour from next door (Charlotte Gainsbourg), the two form an unusual friendship, one that may or may not lead to romance.

Even more than ETERNAL SUNSHINE, THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP is marked by Gondry's whimsical-yet-melancholy aesthetic (honed working on videos by Bjork, the White Stripes, and others), which makes heavy use of stop-motion animation and other playful visual tricks. While the former film was rooted in its American setting (Long Island, NY), SLEEP is a thoroughly European affair steeped in its French setting, with the eccentric Stephane (a transplant from Mexico) alternating between speaking (and even dreaming) in English, French, and Spanish. Although its occasionally over-the-top quirkiness may baffle some viewers, SLEEP's unpredictable and engagingly odd sense of storytelling is sure to intrigue fans of other indie classics such as AMELIE and PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE.





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The Stuff of Dreams
Review of The Science Of Sleep (DVD) by denella

Advantages: Genuine characters; great hand-made artifacts and animation
Disadvantages: Some will find the plot weak

...go. Half an hour into the film, however, I was on the point of switching it off. For some reason I stayed with it and was eventually glad that I had. Stephane Miroux (Gael Garcia Bernal) has just returned to Paris from Mexico following his father's death. A creative artist, he has, thanks to his Parisian mother (Miou Miou), landed a job with a company that makes calendars. Stephane discovers on his first morning that the job merely involves typesetting ... Read review

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To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...
Review of The Science Of Sleep (DVD) by afy9mab

Advantages: A strong visual style and an intense central performance.
Disadvantages: A lack of plot.

...after Stéphanie, who lives across the stairwell from him. She is initially charmed by his eccentricities, but is confused and hurt by his constant childishness and tenuous grip on reality. Former pop promo director and helmer of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", Frenchman Michel Gondry is primarily known for his quirky visual style. It is very much in evidence in this particularly odd little film; in fact it entirely overwhelms the production. ... Read review

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