The Science of Sleep
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Movie Reviews of The Science of Sleep
Movie Review: "Randomness Is Very Difficult To Achieve" ~ Ongoing Lessons In Dreaming And Disasterology
Summary: 5 Stars
`The Science of Sleep' released in `06 is a delightfully original, inventive journey into the somewhat unstable world of Stephane Miroux (Gael Garcia Bernal) a bored graphic designer in search of a job that will allow the full expression of his artistic abilities. Stephanes' world is a place where waking reality and dream images converge in a never ending collage of parallel, synchronized, random thoughts and events. His interior personal reality continually merges and separates with the exterior collective reality in cyclic waves of consciousness leaving him to deal with the flotsam and jetsam of both worlds.
Things were confusing enough for poor Stephane when he was unattached. Now with the looming prospect of a love interest living in the apartment next door, Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), can Stephane bring the inner and outer harmoniously together and find true love? However don't expect the usual ending to this very unusual film. After all, "The brain is the most complex thing in the universe."
If you've already seen this film and enrolled in the "Science of Sleep" course you already know the first lesson. For those who haven't here it is:
Recipe for, "How Dreams Are Prepared."
A very delicate combination of complex ingredients is the key.
First we put in some;
- Random thoughts
Then we add a little bit of;
- Reminisces of the day
Mix with some;
- Memories from the past (that's for two people)
- Love, Friendships, Relationships and all those ships
Together with;
- Songs you heard during the day
- Things you saw and also uh..., personal..., OK
For those in the mood for something creative and different.
Movie Review: don't wake me up from this dream.
Summary: 5 Stars
I wasn't a big fan of Eternal Sunshine, but after having read descriptions of The Science of Sleep and knowing that Gael Garcia Bernal would be in it, I waited for a while for it to come out. The wait was worth it - the most creative piece of work I've seen in a while. I've read reviews comment on Gondry's self-indulgence in the making of this film. Who cares? Unlike some films and filmmakers where the self-indulgence leaves the audience out of the loop, The Science of Sleep invites you into Gondry's imagination and leaves you never wanting to awake from it. Beautiful, painful, fantastical, and realistic all at once; how many others have pulled that off?
Gael Garcia has never been better, or dreamier. He played the character flawlessly, and it may be his best performance to date, though he has so many from which to choose. Watch him across his acting career thus far, from Amores Perros to Y Tu Mama Tambien to Motorcycle Diaries to Bad Education (stellar and vastly different performances), and then see him in The Science of Sleep, and you'll realize the depth and brilliance of his acting.
The Science of Sleep is a movie that can tear you apart - superficially cute and quirky but with underlying layers of bittersweet darkness. You aren't sure whether to cheer or cry for Bernal's character Stephane. The visuals are seemingly simple and spectacular. Science of Sleep has made it to my list of "must own" films and continues to affirm my admiration for Gael Garcia Bernal.
Movie Review: A forest in a boat
Summary: 5 Stars
Now, this is a how a romantic, dramatic, whimsical and tragic comedy should be--twisting from one to the next without notice...enough reason that we retain our sanity, but too little to truly understand.
It's become a little tired, using dreams in movies as juxtapositions between our realities and fantasies. And surrealism can quickly lose touch so that human elements and all their attendant emotions fade in the blender of what might be. But fiction is above all What is and Might be, and too little of the first and you've escaped beyond your capacity to relate, and too little of the last, and you've gone nowhere.
The Science of Sleep does the middle bear thing in a very big and touching way. It straddles not just realism, but other lines that, while stark in lesser movies, blur into the personal constructions they happen to be in the realities we create. Love or lust, and how to tell between them, Longing and Dreading, and how one can lead to the other without fully inhabiting it.
Above all, it is a tremendously sad movie. And in this way, despite the twisted reality it creates, the movie is realism defined.
Movie Review: A gem but, perhaps not for everyone
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie completely captured my imagination and took me back to a place of youth and innocence, first love and not knowing the "right" move. I've read the other mostly positive reviews and agree wholeheartedly. Those who are less impressed are perhaps into a different type of movie. Since I don't require "perfection" in a movie or much else, I'm rarely disappointed. Movies are for me primarily an escape, a journey, an entertainment - and this movie is pure enchantment. If you fall under its spell you are probably still in touch with that innocence you once had. I loved the elementary-school sets - full of egg-crates and paper tubes. I hope most viewers agree that the world has a big star in Gael Garcia Bernal - barely 30 and a major talent. He seems to more easily slip into this not-quite-mature role than his other heavier ones - giving me the impression that this character is closer to the real Bernal. And I thought Charlotte Gainsborough was the exact "sane" character that Bernals' flighty one needed. The ending alone gave me some discomfort - being slightly indefinite to me. Try it, you'll likely like it!Movie Review: "Tonight I'll show you how dreams are prepared, love, friendships, relationships. All those ships. "
Summary: 5 Stars
When I began watching "The Science of Sleep" by Michel Gondry, I first thought that it was a pale copy of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" which I adore but the more I watched the more I realized how subtle, delicate, gentle, charming, quirky, splendid, seemingly childlike naïve yet deeply sophisticated Gondry was in creating this romance that takes place in the magic zone between the sweetest dream and everyday sober reality. The whole movie universe felt like a smile that you have on your face just before you are ready to open your eyes in the morning. It is not a comedy even though it's got wonderful comic scenes, it is more of a romantic drama - fantasy which could be simply an out of this world experience if it's done well and "The Science of Sleep" is done extremely well. I am not a huge fan of Gael García Bernal but he was very moving as a shy quiet young man Stéphane who feels very comfortable in the world of his dreams where he and his next door neighbor Stéphanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg - her I like very much and in every movie) are so happy together...