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Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

palcica05 The most artsy film I watched, I enjoyed it to bits. Has a story and a beauty you will not find in hollywood production. I would give it above 10 rating if it was a thing.

SnoopyStyle Mexican Stéphane Miroux (Gael García Bernal) has a wild imaginative dream world. His father passes away. He moves to France and gets a job at a boring calendar printing company. Stéphanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and Zoé move in next door. The movers drop a piano on Stéphane's hand. He falls for Stéphanie right away. She is pulled in by his imagination.Written and directed by Michel Gondry who also directed 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind', this has lots of Charlie Kaufman touches although he's not involved in this movie. I really like the surrealism. I want to like this movie more but the story is a bit of a mess. Part of the problem may be the multitude of languages. Transferring from one language to the next may have more meaning for people who speak those languages. For example, I can't tell how bad is Stéphane's french. Also the switching between reality and dream is not as clear cut as I want it to be. I love the weird surrealism anyways.

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.

marius-244-692142 While watching movies, I am trying to find an emotional connection or some other connecting characteristic or hobby to be able to relate to the main character and I am comparing what I would do in his/her situation. In "The Science of Sleep" I could not really find any similarities to Stephane, the protagonist, who seemed confusing to me, just like the whole movie. Confusing for me were the scenes, where Michel Gondry (director) mixed dreams with reality. The protagonist Stephane, a shy and creative Mexican, is a very emotional dreamer. This means that his dreams are affecting him so much, that he starts to move, walk around, talk and write during the night. I couldn't sympathize a lot with Stephane, which made his actions for me feeling very weird watching him. "He is a man-child, unable to adjust himself to the everyday realities of the outside world." (Quote from another Review) – This instability (kind of uncomfortable feeling) was transferred to me while seeing this film - the director maybe wanted me to feel like that – I don't know. The director used a lot of Time-Laps Technique, to better demonstrate Stephane's dreams and the 'magic'. What I also noticed was the audio recording of the doors, which seemed to me to loud and supported my already twitchy stomach. The film had a very abrupt ending, which could be unsatisfying for some people. Anyways "The Science of Sleep" is a very special and creative film, which creates magic, it has some funny parts in it and provides entertainment – just not my favourite type of movie.