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The movie plays like an exhausted hallucination, disjointed and frustrating, much of it owing to the lack of chemistry Gondry allows between his stars.
In the end, after your time with it, you'll recall it with a smile, remembering its childish wonderment and mischievous sense of humor.
It's all very cosmopolitan (the dialogue is English, French and Spanish), very independent, a wee bit juvenile and very confusing, of course. But The Science of Sleep is also remarkably magical and desperately romantic beneath it all.
The whimsy Gondry whips up soon goes wispy as we wait in vain for all this sweet-natured silliness to reveal a meaning that isn't transparently obvious.
Gondry's creative breeze of a movie is fun while it lasts, and that's more than you can say about a whole lot of movies.
This determinedly nonlinear filmmaking tells the story more accurately than cinéma vérité ever could.
It's kind of weird and very French, but don't let that scare you. The Science of Sleep is well worth your time.
Charming and strange, with lovely animated scenes.
Michel Gondry no es Charlie Kaufman, por más que sea su equivalente audiovisual.
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.
Something like a Luis Bunuel film, but with politics replaced by fashion. It is, essentially, a hipster wet dream.
A visual treat from beginning to end.
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
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.
The Science of Sleep is Gondry's loosest, most confident movie journey into the imaginative mind.
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