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The Science of Sleep (2006)

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Reviews Counted:152

Fresh:105

Rotten:47

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

Genre: Dramas

US 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.... 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 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 neighbor from next door (played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, the daughter of Gallic crooner Serge Gainsbourg and British singer/actress Jane Birkin), 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. [More]

Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Miou-Miou, Alain Chabat

Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Miou-Miou, Alain Chabat, Pierre Vaneck, Sacha Bourdo

Director: Michel Gondry

Director: Michel Gondry
Screenwriter: Michel Gondry
Composer: Jean Michel Bernard
Studio: Warner Independent

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Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
05/04/07
Sydney Morning Herald
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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

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04/28/07
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A nightmare

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08/28/09
Fernando F. Croce
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11/20/08
Brian Marder
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Hollywood.com
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10/18/08
Bob Mondello
Bob Mondello
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Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Jonathan Kiefer
Jonathan Kiefer
Sacramento News & Review

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.

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02/28/08
Brandon Fibbs
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Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
02/26/08
Film Threat
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Something like a Luis Bunuel film, but with politics replaced by fashion. It is, essentially, a hipster wet dream.

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02/01/08
Karina Longworth
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Cinematical

A visual treat from beginning to end.

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12/07/07
Amber Wilkinson
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film

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07/14/07
Joe Lozito
Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound

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.

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03/24/07
Brian Tallerico
Brian Tallerico
UGO

The Science of Sleep is Gondry's loosest, most confident movie journey into the imaginative mind.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
03/15/07
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
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02/24/07
Philip French
Philip French
Observer [UK]

Another comic love story that takes us inside a character’s psyche, but Kaufman’s rock-solid jokes are replaced by whimsy.

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02/19/07
Edward Porter
Edward Porter
Sunday Times (UK)

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.

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02/16/07
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
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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.

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02/16/07
Stuart McGurk
Stuart McGurk
thelondonpaper

It's all lovely to look at, but becomes progressively wearisome.

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02/16/07
Nick Curtis
Nick Curtis
This is London

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.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
02/16/07
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

A thwarted love story that does not trade in the degraded cliches either of romance or conventional sexiness.

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02/16/07
Peter Bradshaw
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Guardian [UK]
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