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01/06/07
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The Science of Sleep (2006)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:22
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Lovely and diffuse, Sleep isn't as immediately absorbing as Gondry's previous work, but its messy beauty is its own reward.
Theatrical Release:Sep 22, 2006 Limited
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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Reviews for The Science of Sleep
Top CriticIn the end, after your time with it, you'll recall it with a smile, remembering its childish wonderment and mischievous sense of humor.
09/29/06
Top CriticIt'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.
09/29/06
Top CriticThe 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.
09/29/06
Top CriticGondry'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.
09/29/06
Top CriticThis determinedly nonlinear filmmaking tells the story more accurately than cinéma vérité ever could.
09/29/06
Top Critic[Gondry's] passion for cinematic invention is giddy and palpable, with the rudimentary charms of fellow Frenchman and turn-of-the-century filmmaker Georges Melies.
09/28/06
Top CriticThe film is wonderfully innovative.
09/28/06
Top CriticI loved Science, but in its final minutes I felt that I had a one-way ticket to a cul-de-sac. The scenery is something, though.
09/28/06
Top CriticPouring every impulse, inspiration and outlandish image at hand into his project, [Gondry] creates a dream world as visually delightful as it is merrily illogical.
09/28/06
Top CriticIt's a tonic to see a film, however uneven, obsessed with the question of what young love is, exactly, while detailing the stupid stuff that makes people act like jerks over someone.
09/28/06
Top CriticAn exceedingly fanciful film that's both more provocative and less successful than the Carrey piece.
09/28/06
Top CriticThe 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 CriticWhile 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
Top CriticScience 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
Top CriticThe movie does have a dreamlike quality. But it's like one of those dreams where you're late for work and you can't find your shoes.
09/22/06
Top CriticA charming, inventive, ambitious, surreal mess.
09/22/06
Top Critic[Gondry] understands the bittersweet pleasures of unrequited love, how love unattained is always love untainted. Possibility perpetually exists. Dream logic? Perhaps.
09/22/06
Top CriticIt remains a testament to the triumphant nature of Gondry's imagination that reality in this movie feels less real than the fantasies. You're encouraged to mistake one for the other. In some circles, that's called cinema.
09/22/06
Top CriticIt is captivating, but confusing and a bit scattershot, like a patchwork quilt of idle thoughts, fantasies and reveries.
09/21/06
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