THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP
| 2006 – 107′ – Comedy, Fantasy, Romance.
Written by: Michel Gondry
Directed by: Michel Gondry.
Starring: Sacha Bourdo, Stéphane Metzger, Pierre Vaneck, Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou, Emma De Caunes.
Official Selections: Berlin International Film Festival 2006, Sundance International Film Festival 2006.
In English.
A Warner Independent Pictures release. |
The Science of Sleep, a playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvy brain of Stephane Miroux, an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life: Stéphane returns to Paris to work in a printing firm that makes calendars. His vivid dreams are a compensation for the dull life he leads. Before his cardboard cameras, he invents a television program about dreams. One day, he meets Stéphanie, his neighbor, and falls in love with her. Initially charmed by this astonishing young man’s strange behavior, it then scares her away and Stéphanie rejects him. Awkward at the art of seduction, Stéphane decides to find the solution to his problem in the realm where imagination is king.