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
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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 Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Something like a Luis Bunuel film, but with politics replaced by fashion. It is, essentially, a hipster wet dream. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
A visual treat from beginning to end. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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The Science of Sleep is Gondry's loosest, most confident movie journey into the imaginative mind. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Another comic love story that takes us inside a character’s psyche, but Kaufman’s rock-solid jokes are replaced by whimsy. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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It's all lovely to look at, but becomes progressively wearisome. Full Review |
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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 |
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A thwarted love story that does not trade in the degraded cliches either of romance or conventional sexiness. Full Review |
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