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La Science des Rêves
The Science of Sleep
L'Arte del Sogno
France / Italy 2006
produced by Georges Bermann for Partizan, France 3, Mikado Film, Gaumont, Canal+, TPS Star
directed by Michel Gondry
starring Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou, Pierre Vanck, Emma de Caunes, Aurélia Petit, Sacha Bourdo, Stéphane Metzger, Alain de Moyencourt, Inigo Lezzi, Yvette Petit, Jean-Michel Bernard, Eric Mariotto, Bertrand Delpierre
written by Michel Gondry, music by Jean-Michel Bernard, visual effects by Jean-Gabriel Saint-Paul/Éclair Numérique
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Artist Stéphane (Gael García Bernal) has just been lured back to Paris by
his mother (Miou Miou) to work at an advertising agency, but the job he
gets is anything but satisfying on a creative level, so he lets his dreams
take over his life more and more. Eventually, he falls in love with
next-door neighbour Stéphanie (Charlotte Gaionsbourg), but as he gets more and more
caught up in his dreamworld, he is less and less able to
distinguish real life from dreams, and repeatedly messes up the
relationship with Stéphanie that's yet to blossom - so much so that he
decides to leave the country and break both their hearts. Only upon saying
good-bye does he succeed to drag her into his dreamworld ...
In
parts, this film is simply fascinating, as Michel Gondry, first and
foremost famous for his unusual videocllips and commercials, brings a
surreal world to life with a variety of unusual (mostly non-CGI) effects
that are nothing short of charming or even breathtaking. That said though,
as a whole the film is less than a masterpiece, as the story simply seems
to be a hanger for the movie's many special effects setpieces, which
resemble Gondry's videoclips a bit too closely, with the result that they
seem to be like isolated shorts thrown together to make up a movie, with a
bit of a conventional boy-meets-girl-boy-loses-girl plot thrown in to
bridge the gaps between them. By saying all that, I don't want to imply
that the film is a failure, actually it is pretty fascinating on a visual
level and should be watched for that alone - just too bad the film fails
to convince on a narrative level ...
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