never achieves the emotional depth of Eternal Sunshine, but it's a merry lark full of off the wall humor and offbeat imagery
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09/21/06
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
121 - 140 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
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
Gondry does wonders with the inventively low-tech dream sequences, creating sets and toys out of cardboard any craft-minded kid would envy.
09/21/06
It is captivating, but confusing and a bit scattershot, like a patchwork quilt of idle thoughts, fantasies and reveries.
09/21/06
Top CriticNothing much happens, but a lot goes on. It perfectly captures the feeling of what it's like to be young, creative, lost, idealistic and maladjusted, and it recognizes the overlap between the urge to create things and the longing for love.
09/21/06
Top CriticThe 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
What Eternal Sunshine did with magic and whimsy, The Science of Sleep accomplishes with confusion and pretentiousness.
09/21/06
... between the chaotic zigs and creative jags, it proclaims its own kind of messy authenticity and a bittersweet beauty.
09/21/06
Michel Gondry's beguiling new film is so profoundly idiosyncratic, and so confident in its oddity, that any attempt to describe it is bound to be misleading.
09/21/06
Top CriticTo me, the movie feels like a small but ingeniously crafted gift, like the stuffed horse Stéphane outfits with a tiny motor for his beloved's pleasure.
09/21/06
Eternal Sunshine was about memory, love, loss, and so on; Science tinkers with being about at least love and loss, but mainly ends up being about the contents of Michel Gondry's head.
09/21/06
Considering how wacky this zig-zag movie often is, it's surprising to discover how touching it is, too.
09/21/06
Could have used more science and less sleep.
09/21/06
Perfectly charming but suitably strange ...
09/21/06
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
The Science of Sleep is an odd combination of elements, a misty-eyed and even mystical romance with a core of painful emotional realism.
09/21/06
To borrow one of Stephane's malapropisms, by the last half hour you feel positively schizometric, which I take it refers to that discombobulated state of being nowhere in more than one place at the same time.
09/21/06
The Science of Sleep is like a weird dream that tugs at the memory throughout the day with its intriguing, misshapen pieces.
09/20/06
Michel Gondry makes more interesting films when he's chasing through screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's playful thoughts than his own.
09/19/06
Sweet, crazy, and tinged with sadness, Michel Gondry's new feature The Science of Sleep is a wondrous concoction.
09/19/06
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