The Science of Sleep

2006 "Close your eyes. Open your heart."
7.2| 1h45m| R| en
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A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Ensofter Overrated and overhyped
ThrillMessage There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.
A_Different_Drummer A wonderful little film that works on many levels: 1. A mix of live action and animation which instantly puts it in rarified space. Very few films like this have ever been attempted.2. A Python-esque story coming from ... France? The Brits would be horrified. And it works well.3. Has the intense dialog and blown-up social comedy that Euro films are known for. That works too.4. Story is clever, the protagonist has trouble distinguishing between reality and sleep -- a condition, his mother says, he has had since a child. Also works well.5. Casting is fascinating. The guy played by Gael García Bernal is an Alain Delon look-a-like and everyone in the story knows it. Looking great (in film and I think real life) gives him the right to do outrageous things and get forgiven. But the love interest in this quirky (and fun) rom-com arc is played by Charlotte Gainsbourg who is appealing and simpatico but not conventionally beautiful. Again, this works well.6. Of course -- you knew this! -- the writer and director are one and the same, Highly creative films like this always are the work of a single creative mind.A lost gem.
jackweatherbe This film was different than anything I've ever seen, for the most part. Was it amazing? No, but it was original and it worked which is hard to pull off. It didn't come off as overdone or too out there, the film did what it what it was meant to do and the concept was portrayed successfully. That aside, the story was lacking and unsatisfying just like the ending. I would say this films strengths reside in the shots and the ideas, and it makes it worth watching and recommending. The blending of real life and stop motion in the dream world was great. That was the most intriguing things that the science of sleep pulled off. Good movie with a bland story.
Chris Roberts I really enjoyed the science of sleep. I liked how it was super weird but made sense at the same time. The story was written well enough to support the crazy scenes that were visualized inside Stephane's head. I thought the shots inside his head with the cardboard window pulley's we're super neat and a great addition to it. I particularly enjoyed this film because it's what I want to aim towards when creating my own. It steers away from larger plot ideas and get's into the brain and explores all the little things that make people quirky and unique. I really liked Stephanie's character and the way she was intertwined between reality and Stephan's dreams throughout the movie. The creativity level with set design to costumes amazed me along with the way each scene played out.
paul2001sw-1 Director Michel Gondry's film 'The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' played tricks with time and reality as it told a quirky story of romance; although in places it seemed arbitrary and childish, it undoubtedly had a certain charm. 'The Science of Sleep' is less successful, mostly because it's so conceptually similar: the story of a hesitating relationship, in which the director gives himself carte blanche to break from the constraints of the real world and do, as he indeed does at various points, whatever he wants. Although there's some hint at the idea that what we are seeing on screen is a more accurate representation of the inner mind-set of a confused central character than strict realism, none of the ideas here are worked out with discipline and consistency: indeed, few of them even deserve to be called ideas, they're better described as merely images, with more the illusion than the reality that anything solid lies behind them. The movie still isn't utterly charmless; but I failed to see the point of it.