I liked it. The ending could have been better I think, but overall it was very light-hearted, moved at an easy pace and something I could relate to (albeit in a far fetched kind of way). I won’t say it’s deep and meaningful, I just thought it was very playful and imaginative and a bit of a refreshing alternative to your typical Hollywood-esque movie.

I felt like this movie had some cute moments, but ultimately, it didn’t go anywhere. It felt very forced and pretentious. Gondry has yet to make a movie to impress me with something other than effects.

I thought The Science of Sleep was fluffy as the little bundles of cotton they throw up in the air. Enjoyable, yes, and the cast (especially Garcia Bernal) proves adept at both pathos and comedy, and visually amazing on an interestingly small scale (it’s usually when it’s writ large that it makes an impact on audiences, and Gondry expresses this interiority well). But the narrative seems to be there for the sole purpose of finding a framework on which to hang the surreally inventive dream sequences. And yes, it’s being heavily marketed as a date movie, and the romantic silliness, which doesn’t go on for long, works in that regard.

But in the bigger scheme of things, it’s still nowhere near Gondry’s best work, which is, of course, “Come Into My World.”

I went in to The Science of Sleep with a bit of nervousness based on the trailer and all of the other work that I’d seen from Michel Gondry. There seemed to be a lot of imagery and situations repeated from his music videos and it seemed a bit light. Once the film started I was pleasantly surprised that it was a very different film from the one that I had constructed from the trailer and I was completely drawn into the world that was created.
Gondry’s two previous dramatic features were written by Charlie Kaufman and I was very curious to see what Gondry would do on his own both writing and directing The Science of Sleep. Gondry has a much looser structure and it gradually erases the lines between dreams and reality.
The performances of Gael Garcia Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg are wonderful to watch as they play complex and sometimes frustrating characters. There are magical moments between them and I relaxed into the film like sliding into a warm bath. When the film was over it was a bit strange walking out into the world and it almost seemed as if I had not completely left the film. It took me a while to become grounded again which is one of the signs of a great film as it changes the way that you see the world. That’s why I love seeing films.

It is so visually beautiful—and so sweet—

It is a celebration of the joyfulness of the sorrow that is our lives.

An interesting film more or less about a guy lost between the real world and his own dreams. It’s a bit hard to follow at times, about as hard as it is for the main character. You kind of get sucked into his delusional reality.

In any case, I recommend it.