An exceedingly fanciful film that's both more provocative and less successful than the Carrey piece.
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09/28/06
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
81 - 100 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
More exhausting than illuminating.
09/28/06
A peculiar ditty about the way that life and love are made up of sane moments and surreal moments of craziness, and the crazy ones are always better.
09/28/06
A painfully bad film ... This ridiculous art-house nonsense is supposed to be a comedy, but I never laughed nor did I ever even come close to smiling.
09/28/06
...a burst of creativity that only an art student on copious caffeine - or something even stronger - could handle.
09/28/06
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
Possibly a very shallow work, but it's also exhaustively imaginative and bustles with wit and invention.
09/28/06
A cloying confection of candied whimsy and exclusive self-referentiality.
09/28/06
Through Gondry’s eyes, the experience is not the story but the sensation of a dreamscape unlike any we have experienced before -- the place where fear walks hand-in-hand with hope, joy and imagination.
09/28/06
What do you do when you're confronted with maybe the most wonderfully strange, most magically enchanting, most heartachingly romantic movie you've ever seen?
09/27/06
For all its lighthearted flights-of-fancy, The Science of Sleep turns out to be a surprisingly heartbreaking affair.
09/27/06
The Science of Sleep is a creative effort that is well crafted and visually amusing to watch.
09/26/06
This is a sometimes brilliant, occasionally infuriating, visually astonishing extravaganza of embarrassing self-pity.
09/26/06
The Science of Sleep is an interesting visual experiment that tries really hard to be something unique, but it just spins its flashy wheels and eventually goes nowhere.
09/25/06
Top CriticIt's busy, charming, stimulating and packed with heart and soul.
09/23/06
Ever surreal and intensely visual, director/screenwriter Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep proves nearly impossible to describe in mere words.
09/23/06
While this is obviously inspired stuff, and while Gondry's cardboard-and-scissors, pop-primitivist sensibilities result in some fetching hand-carved wonders, the movie itself is as oblivious and hermetic as its love struck, fantasy-prone hero.
09/22/06
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
All of this sometimes feels just a bit self-indulgent, and more than a bit random -- but then again, isn't that exactly what dreams can be?
09/22/06
Science may be a little too out there for people used to linear movies. The story doesn't make much sense, but it's not supposed to any more than a dream does.
09/22/06
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