THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP (2006) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Michel Gondry
Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou
A young artist moves to the city, where he gets a dreary job doing cut-and-paste for a calendar company, and divides his time between dreams and reality as he becomes more and more attracted to the girl in the flat across the hall. Gondry doesn't always seem to know where he wants to go with this, maybe nowhere, and maybe that's the point, but he has created a fanciful reflection on unrequited love in all its funny, agonizing, irresistible hopelessness. If you've ever gotten totally hooked on somebody who only just wanted to be friends and then proceeded to drive you completely nuts, this is the movie for you.
