The Science of Sleep

2006 "Close your eyes. Open your heart."
The Science of Sleep
7.2| 1h45m| R| en| More Info
Released: 22 September 2006 Released
Producted By: Gaumont
Country: Italy
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Official Website: http://www.lasciencedesreves-lefilm.com/accueil.htm
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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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d-kristensen-115-52781 Throughout this film I found was constantly asking myself what I was watching. The terrible sound alignment displayed while Stephane was sleeping was extremely distracting, as well as a horrible aspect of the movie. The time lapse used by the director was alright, as was the green screen. I still believe that his dreams could have been represented in a much better fashion, as I constantly found myself wondering if Stephane was dreaming or in real life. The The story line of the movie was awful. By the end of the movie he had still not gotten the girl, and still had the same crappy job printing at printing calenders for a low level company. Nothing had been accomplished. I would not watch this move again.
Chris Parkins I didn't particularly enjoy the movie. It became boring at times when the main character acts like a child in love with a girl on the play ground. Even towards the end of the movie he was throwing his toys out the cot around because he dint get his way and nothing even happened between the two character in the end. The only things that impressed me was the set in his dreams was very creative at times it reminded me of Sponge bob with his bath dreams which I thought was very impressive. The humour in his office where he works was quite funny when the people he worked with cracked a few jokes between themselves. so all in all I didn't really enjoy the movie.
tommasoparis After the death of his father in Mexico, Stephane a young creative man who confuses reality and dream, back to Paris for his mother's request. There he found a boring and not creative job from Illustrator into a small business promotional calendars and a nice neighbour, Stephanie. He falls in love with her, in a dream and awake builds for her mechanical puppets or improbable machines of the time. But in love, dream and reality not coincide almost ever. The movie talks about how the border between dream and reality is really thin. Among funny moments, in fact I laughed so much, there is also a deep meaning. The protagonist played that role really good. The screenplay is very original and I personally love it! Very interesting the choice to use three languages during the whole movie I really enjoyed that. In the movie there are brilliant ideas as the time machine. I really liked when Stephan said: "I'm exhausted, I'm going to wake up now." This sentence makes us understand how the protagonist was really between dream and reality. I found some sections exaggerated but that's the beauty of the movie that makes me feel comfortable because everyone has a bit of madness and fantasy in our head and this film brings the extreme our imagination, and this made me really comfortable. The movie is generated by the smart mind of Michel Gondry, also creator of the brilliant Eternal Sunshine, another movie that I love!
Joe Maguire Tried watching this last night and gave up after forty minutes, which I don't do often. Although Gondry has done some beautiful work here with stop-motion animation thats a feast for the eye, the story plays like an exhausted hallucination, disjointed and frustrating, much of it owing to the lack of chemistry between the characters and the sheer confusion of the dialogue.It's hard to put into words the train wreck this film is. It was all too much. Too much scenery, too much thought, too much into every scene to try and get what was going on.Not for me.