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
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.... [More]
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Miou-Miou, Alain Chabat
Director: Michel Gondry
Reviews for The Science of Sleep
1 - 20 (sorted by critic A-Z; Australian critics are listed first)
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05/04/07
Top CriticGainsbourg has anti-film presence. Why is she in movies hiding from the camera and not wearing makeup or combing her hair?
08/24/06
There's no question about it-the mind of Michel Gondry is a weird, wonderful place.
07/13/06
Michel Gondry's follow-up to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind isn't as cohesive as that much-loved hipster head trip, but it's a wildly imaginative picture in its own right.
09/22/06
The film has no shape, but while we watch, Gondy makes sure we're lovingly distracted with his individual, inventive moments.
09/22/06
The flying sequences, though extremely lo-tech, succeed in stirring that feeling of flight, stirring a few stomach butterflies.
09/11/06
... between the chaotic zigs and creative jags, it proclaims its own kind of messy authenticity and a bittersweet beauty.
09/21/06
the film's wild images and sense of fun are fleeting at best, and start to leak away the second the credits begin to roll
09/21/06
Visually, the movie is childlike -- ornamented with the oddments that a little girl might keep in a box under her bed and decorated with the fancies that a boy might draw in the margins of a school book.
09/29/06
Like the best dreams, it'll leave you a little dazed, and wishing you could close your eyes and put yourself back in its world.
09/28/06
What Eternal Sunshine did with magic and whimsy, The Science of Sleep accomplishes with confusion and pretentiousness.
09/21/06
In the end, after your time with it, you'll recall it with a smile, remembering its childish wonderment and mischievous sense of humor.
09/29/06
The most definitive, most expressive, most imaginative, most thorough, most beautiful cinematic cogitation of romance, ever. And a big middle finger to everyone who disagrees.
09/22/06
Michel Gondry is to visual art as Van Gogh is to post-impressionism; vivid bold and fearless, the seam of reality is present but you're never quite sure where they will lead your emotions, while taking an established artform to a different level.
10/01/06
This determinedly nonlinear filmmaking tells the story more accurately than cinéma vérité ever could.
09/29/06
A thwarted love story that does not trade in the degraded cliches either of romance or conventional sexiness.
02/16/07
Top CriticThe Science Of Sleep is a collection of lovely little moments and inspired effects with not much holding them together.
09/22/06
I doubt any other movie of 2006 will inspire as many walkouts as The Science of Sleep, a declaration which in itself should function as a no-holds-barred recommendation for those seeking something unusual in their moviegoing diet.
10/02/06
The shadow side of imagination is revealed through the adventures of a batty young man who lives in his own little dream world.
09/21/06
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