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The Science of Sleep
Soon after the death of his father, a distraught young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life begins a job as a graphic designer. He then is love-struck with his creative-thinking neighbor, a beautiful French woman, and feels he can show her his world.
24 November 1958, Oran, France [now Algeria]
15 April 1931, Langson, Tonkin, Vietnam
21 July 1971, London, England, UK
9 September 1976, Paris, France
23 November 1961, France
22 February 1950, Paris, France
8 January 1962, Oryol, Orlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
November 16, 2012
More amazing work from Gondry. If you're interested in a basic narrative, look away; if you prize inventive filmmaking, don't miss it.
April 01, 2011
It's kind of weird and very French, but don't let that scare you. The Science of Sleep is well worth your time.
September 29, 2006
In the end, after your time with it, you'll recall it with a smile, remembering its childish wonderment and mischievous sense of humor.
February 28, 2008
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.
September 29, 2006
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.
September 29, 2006
The movie plays like an exhausted hallucination, disjointed and frustrating, much of it owing to the lack of chemistry Gondry allows between his stars.
September 29, 2006
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.
September 29, 2006
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.
November 03, 2012
The Science Of Sleep is truly a delight at times, a startlingly original piece of work that's not as accessible as Eternal Sunshine but is every bit as magnificent when in full flow.
February 01, 2008
Something like a Luis Bunuel film, but with politics replaced by fashion. It is, essentially, a hipster wet dream.
February 14, 2007
In the moment, Gondry and Bernal almost manage to give quirky a good name.
August 28, 2009
A nightmare
