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Movie Reviews Reviews The Science Of Sleep
Author : Mr D Stevens
I didn't know what to make of this movie, my initial impressions at first from
the title and hearing that the director Michel Gondry did music videos for
the Foo fighters, I was expecting a science fiction drama.
What I certainly did not expect was this kind of a movie, I don't know where to
begin, it is a psychodelic enchanting and mesmerising vision through the main
lead, played by Gael Garcia Bernal (unrecognisable from the angry mexican in
Babel).
He plays Stephane, from a spanish father and a french mother, coming to France
for one of the few times and staying in his mother's apartment (she is the
local landlady) as he starts a new job, Stephane sees and interpretes the world
around him through his vivid dreams, and this is the magic of the movie, it
involves animation, special effects and psychodelic images to bring those dreams
vividly to life and has the director's trademark impossibly large hands that
have become an iconic symol in the Foo Fighters music videos , not to mention it
is also a love story with Stephane having a crush on his neighbor (Stephanie),
played enchantedly by Charlotte Gainsbourg (she is the daughter of English film
star Jane Birkin and French composer Serge Gainsbourg best known for the
hanuting classic romantic song "Je t'aime", on a side not I was quite surprised
to find out Charlotte Gainsbourg is very shy about speaking english she
apparently learnt it via elocution, for someone who is shy she speaks it
fluently without any trace of an accent, I might add she sounds just like her
mother when she speaks it), who Stephane realises is the only one who truly
understands him and his dreamy take on life. I haven't seen anything quite like
it, and you may either love it or loathe it, but what is clear is it captures
vividly the dreamy world we have been to and will instantly recognise.
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Tags: Movie reviews, film reviews, movies, films, Science of sleep, Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, romance, romantic, science fiction, fantasy, psychodelic, drama, foreign film, foo fighters
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Submitted : 2009-09-10 Word Count : 343 Popularity: 58