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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
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
Top CriticMichael Gondry seems to know what he is doing, layering the Gael Garcia Bernal charm factor with some edge.
09/22/06
I'm not sure I would have recommended it in the theater %u2013 where you're paying full ticket price and therefore expect a cohesive experience %u2013 but on DVD it's worth a look.
02/05/07
Gondry's film certainly looks at life in a different way, and it refreshingly allows you to do the same, so long as you keep your eyes open.
09/28/06
The film is wonderfully innovative.
09/28/06
Michel Gondry makes more interesting films when he's chasing through screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's playful thoughts than his own.
09/19/06
An exceedingly fanciful film that's both more provocative and less successful than the Carrey piece.
09/28/06
An endearing, beautiful, hopelessly honest mess that's supported by a pair of performances so unnaturally natural that they draw you in and clutch you, struggling, to their flipping, flopping hearts.
09/21/06
Ultimately, The Science Of Sleep is about the dividing line between whimsy and simple immaturity.
09/22/06
Credit should be shared with the leads; together they're silly, giddy, irrepressibly inventive - a lot like the film itself.
02/13/07
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07/14/07
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
It remains a testament to the triumphant nature of Gondry's imagination that reality in this movie feels less real than the fantasies. You're encouraged to mistake one for the other. In some circles, that's called cinema.
09/22/06
Maybe Gondry should have put more science in his fantasy of unrequited love, because little about it feels grounded in anything real ... Like most dreams, you're liable to forget about it in the morning.
10/02/06
A richly imaginative and enchantingly playful work of onscreen art, The Science of Sleep is not so much a straightforward narrative as it is a pastiche of fanciful reveries, brightly-colored visuals and childlike innocence personified.
09/14/06
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
Boundless in its visual imagination but exacting in its emotional explorations, "Sleep" is one of the best and certainly most distinctive films of the year.
09/29/06
Even the most experimental moviegoers, though, may wish for more of a story than what's provided.
10/02/06
It's a tonic to see a film, however uneven, obsessed with the question of what young love is, exactly, while detailing the stupid stuff that makes people act like jerks over someone.
09/28/06
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