The Science of Sleep
- Gael García Bernal: Stéphane
- Charlotte Gainsbourg: Stéphanie
- Alain Chabat Guy
- Miou Miou - Christine Miroux
- Emma de Caunes: Zoé
- Aurélia Petit: Martine
- Sacha Bourdo: Serge
- Stéphane Metzger: Sylvain
Science of Sleep - How to dream ( original title: La Science des rêves ) is a French film from 2006 directed by Michel Gondry, who also wrote the screenplay. . The main role was played by Gael García Bernal. Album has been produced by Partizan. The film tells a tragicomic story with surrealistic means.
Action
The shy Stéphane Miroux comes after the death of his father, where he has lived since his parents separated, from Mexico to Paris. Because he likes drawing and inventing, his mother got him a job there at a company to view calendar. However, the job turns out to office work. Its design proposals are rejected as unmarketable. With his three colleagues he has to talk because of his poor French language skills in English.
In his dreams is Stéphane presenter of his own TV show " Stéphane TV". He has them apart since his childhood difficulties, dream and reality. Among other things, he dreams, he would enchant the boss at work and take power in the company itself.
As compared with Stéphane feeding a young woman, Stéphane helps to carry her piano up the stairs. He injured his hand. The new neighbor - her name is Stéphanie - invites him to her apartment, where he is patched up by her friend Zoé. Zoé is lying to him that they would work at a music company, which Stéphanie does not approve. Stéphane, who speaks mainly English, Zoé is initially attractive, but falls in love with the time in Stéphanie.
Stéphane's experiences are increasingly unreal. He and Stéphanie create a common fantasy world. For example, they use a homemade time machine that can move back down a second into the future or into the past. And they think up a story about a boat and begin to implement them with modest means in reality.
By the time Stéphane doubt that Stephanie really likes him and believes everything experienced was just a dream. Completely at the end, he wants to eventually go back to Mexico. But before he equips his neighbor nor a visit. He sees that she has the story finished tinkering around the boat.
Genesis
French director Michel Gondry was with his English-language film Forget Me Not! celebrated in 2004 by critics and has been returned from the U.S. back to his home country to make a film. The idea for the scale autobiographical story had come to him years earlier, when he filmed the music video for Everlong by the Foo Fighters. This is about a couple that his dreams " divides " itself. The film was shot for seven weeks to 35 mm. The bulk of the movie takes place in the house in Paris, where the director had lived with his family while he worked as a Calendar Designer. The dream sequences were just six months ago turned into Gondry's house in Villemagne. The production cost of the film amounted to about six million U.S. dollars.
With the role of Stéphane one occupied the Mexican Gael García Bernal, with the lead roles in films such as La Mala Educación - Bad Education (2004) Amores Perros and (2000) had attained world fame. Previously also Rhys Ifans had been for the role in an interview.
Reception
Its premiere the film on 11 February 2006 at the International Film Festival Berlin 2006 out of competition. He was then shown at several other film festivals, for example at the Moscow Film Festival and at the Munich Film Festival. On 16 August the same year came Science of Sleep - How to dream in the French cinema, on 28 September in the German and on 29 September in the Austrian.
The film played in theaters around 15 million U.S. dollars - around five million in the United States and almost four million in France, where 570,000 people visited the movie. In Germany the film saw 147,000 moviegoers, in Switzerland and in Austria 26,000 23,000.
The majority of the critics took the film on well. Sebastian Handke wrote in the Tagesspiegel, the result of the different materials that are used in the movie - imperfect stop-motion animation with Alltagstrouvalien and advanced computer technology - is "a lovingly detailed feast for the eyes, in which reality and vision increasingly overlap. " The U.S. American critic James Berardinelli, however, complained that the film is confusing and pretentious.
Awards
The Designer Pierre Pell and Stephane Rozenbaum were for The Science of Sleep - excellent guide to dream at the award ceremony of the European Film Awards 2006 in the category Best artistic contribution.