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05/04/07
The Science of Sleep (2006)
69 %
Reviews Counted: 150 Fresh: 104 Rotten:46 Average Rating: 6.6/10
Consensus:
Lovely and diffuse, Sleep isn't as immediately absorbing as Gondry's previous work, but its messy beauty is its own reward.
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Theatrical Release: Sep 22, 2006 Limited
Box Office: $4,572,038
Synopsis: For his first non-documentary film after 2004's ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, French writer/director Michel Gondry applies his highly inventive cinematic vision to THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP. Largely set in the very active subconscious mind of Stephane (Gael Garcia Bernal), the movie... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Miou-Miou, Alain Chabat, Pierre Vaneck
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A wondrously baffling jigsaw puzzle where dreams and reality struggle to find a fit, The Science of Sleep is the dream you wish you could have, if you could only remember it
04/28/07
Top Critic
It's not that The Science of Sleep is a terrible film. It's not. It's just that it doesn't operate properly and there's nothing worse than seeing a film in which obvious design and potential is ultimately unfulfilled.
02/28/08
Top Critic
Something like a Luis Bunuel film, but with politics replaced by fashion. It is, essentially, a hipster wet dream.
02/01/08
A creative, original work by a filmmaker with a fantastic visual flair who refuses to stick to any typical cinematic patterns, even if it's sometimes to a fault.
03/24/07
The Science of Sleep is Gondry's loosest, most confident movie journey into the imaginative mind.
03/15/07
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02/24/07
Another comic love story that takes us inside a character’s psyche, but Kaufman’s rock-solid jokes are replaced by whimsy.
02/19/07
Gondry always manages to maintain a childlike wonder in the magic of creating a moving image, and never is it more evident than in this film.
02/16/07
Top Critic
It’s whimsical to the point of maddening. Bernal does his best, but there’s only so much fawning any man can get away with.
02/16/07
Dreams are easy to invent, and as easy to forget. The real challenge is to invent stories that have a stake in logic as well as truth.
02/16/07
A thwarted love story that does not trade in the degraded cliches either of romance or conventional sexiness.
02/16/07
Top Critic
There’s a very thin line between amusingly quirky and just plain pretentious. I’d say this falls somewhere in the middle.
02/16/07
As the movie progresses, we’re presented with one of the best portrayals of the innate awkwardness of first love I can ever remember seeing.
02/16/07
Beautifully directed, charmingly surreal and genuinely romantic, this is the perfect offbeat date movie and easily one of the best films of the year.
02/15/07
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a lot of critics seemed to have missed the whole secret of this movie -- SPOILERS
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Please note: Warner Independent will release THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP on Sept. 22, 2006!!
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Please note: Warner Independent will release THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP on Sept. 22, 2006!!
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