The science of dreams: a small concentration of poetry
Production : Michel Gondry
Actors: Gael Garcia Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat
Released on August 16th
Gondry's cinema is paradoxical, both near and far. Close, because his movies are stories of adults who live complicated, convoluted, impossible loves. And far, because it brings us back to our childhood, when we did not want to grow and everything was easier, precisely. Michel Gondry is a nostalgic, a brilliant but childish director and this nostalgia, in his movies, appears so well.
His last movie The Science of Sleep, on the screens on August 16, is one of those movies the. It's not so much the scenario, all simple, finally. That's the way he decided to tell this story. The story is about Stéphane, played by the charming Gael Garcia Bernal, who has a certain propensity to live in his little world of his own, to take refuge in his dreams to brighten a reality too boring and that falls in love with Stephanie, played by the sweet Charlotte Gainsbourg. Troubled with love but unable to cope with his feelings, he will seek solutions in his imagination.
A trivial story, in short, made of surreal moments, crazy scenes and secondary characters more extravagant than each other, with in mind, a hilarious chaotic Alain chabat in rage. Who better than Gondry could have made this feature film that oscillates between dream and reality? Who better than he could have filmed situations that we all dreamed? A scene where Gael Garcia Bernal drives a cardboard car, where he flies in a painted sky above a paper village, where he removes Charlotte Gainsbourg and they both ride a felt horse ... it is worth while to close your eyes, one would believe it. It makes you dream, smile a lot, almost cry.
