The whimsical and imaginative Stéphane (Gael García Bernal) has a mundane job at a calendar company and longs for a more creative outlet. He becomes enamored of his neighbor, Stéphanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), but the relationship is threatened by the constant seepage of his fantasy life into his real world. According to Gondry, the film is an attempt “to connect dream with reality and see how they interact with each other.” The Science of Sleep is his most personal (and autobiographical) film to date—“a dazzling display” (Sight and Sound). 2006, France, color, 35mm, in French and English with English subtitles, 105 minutes.
The Science of Sleep
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