The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves)

Director: Michel Gondry

Cast: Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jean-Michel Bernard, Emma de Caunes, Alain Chabat, Stéphane Metzger, Miou-Miou

(Warner Independent Pictures, 2006) Rated: R

US DVD release date: 6 February 2007

[29 September 2006]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

Disasterology

Written and directed by the ever inventive Michel Gondry, The Science of Sleep is a gorgeous, weird, mesmeric movie, with adorable animated reveries to represent Stéphane's subjective state.

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