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05/04/07
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
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Top CriticA 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
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09/30/06
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02/26/08
Top Critic...without screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, Gondry is more stylistic flash than substance.
09/22/06
The Science of Sleep is a frantic and funny diversion, but it pales and tires before its time is up. It doesn’t know the meaning of enough.
09/18/06
Top CriticDreams 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
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
Gondry seems preoccupied by his technical wizardry rather than making sure his story is keeping perfect time.
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
Navel-gazing director Michel Gondry ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind") wears his developmentally arrested heart on his sleeve, on his pants, and on his forehead in the most self-indulgent movie of 2006.
10/25/06
Michel Gondry makes more interesting films when he's chasing through screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's playful thoughts than his own.
09/19/06
The hyperactive juvenile whimsy and the stoner dream theories are out of control -- and fascinatingly close to pathology.
01/31/06
Could have used more science and less sleep.
09/21/06
As weird and playful as Eternal Sunshine, but not as poetic, romantic or engaging, this structurally messy and visualy busy film is a reflection of Gondry's unbridled and undisciplined imagination--it's the first film based on his own script.
08/09/06
A nightmare
08/28/09
Really nothing more than a phantasmagorical reworking of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty using lots of tacky effects and goofy imagery.
10/02/06
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