Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Absolutely Fantastic

A Masterpiece!

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Throughout this film I found was constantly asking myself what I was watching. The terrible sound alignment displayed while Stephane was sleeping was extremely distracting, as well as a horrible aspect of the movie. The time lapse used by the director was alright, as was the green screen. I still believe that his dreams could have been represented in a much better fashion, as I constantly found myself wondering if Stephane was dreaming or in real life. The The story line of the movie was awful. By the end of the movie he had still not gotten the girl, and still had the same crappy job printing at printing calenders for a low level company. Nothing had been accomplished. I would not watch this move again.

This film was not your typical drama movie, It had very unusual scenes as the main character Stèphane was intensely entranced by his very own dreams and his unique imagination. He also happens to be in love with a French woman who he feels he can show his personal dream and reality world to. The women he falls in love with happens to have the name Stèphanie. Its fate for them to get married! Stèphane meets this women at his job which he works for a calendar- making firm. After multiple times of Stèphanie telling Stèphane how much she loves him, he still does not trust her and every time he sees her with another man he will go "crazy". After time goes by both of them slowly become less attracted to one another. Stèphane still loved her but Stèphanie found it was to hard to deal with him and his crazy dreams. This fantasy drama film had me confused at times but it overall was a great movie that had me entertained the whole time! Im glad I was able to watch this film in my class at school!

"Parallel Synchronized Randomness" is the concept that is basically the foundation of "The Science of Sleep", a secret and unsearchable agreement between two minds that find themselves unknowingly connected. After the death of his father in Mexico, Stéphane, a creative man, goes back to Paris by request of his mother. There are waiting for him a job as illustrator in a small business that promotes calendars and a neighbor, Stéphanie, who sews as a hobby toys. He falls in love with the girl, Stéphane woos her in dreams and when he is awake he builds for her mechanical puppets or improbable time machines. But in love, dream and reality hardly ever coincide. Structured like an homemade television studio, the dream theater is the perfect setting on which to stage the dissatisfaction of everyday life. The game is so rewarding that is confused with reality: between somnambulism and hallucinations Stéphane confuses the levels of its existence that are wildly alternated. A lot of important details make this film at the same time brilliant and illogical: the combination of colors and images and music; the delightful family videos of Stéphane's childhood that show a different way of filming; the proud low-cost special effects that make remember of cartoons and innocence; the brilliant beginning of the film that captures the attention of the public with surreal colors and the voice over of Stéphane. The great idea to represent the mind of Stephane as a television studio, all made of cardboard and cellophane, in which the protagonist prepares his dreams like the chef of a television program of cooking. The main ingredients are the colors and emotions of the present, mixed with the sounds, the voices, the music, the memories of the past and mixed again with some of the hopes for the future and that's your dream. Nothing more nothing less. Dreams live and intersect with reality itself, dreams influence reality until it is difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. "The science of sleep" is the development of this theory. This movie shows how a man with a creative mind works, how he lives, how he builds reality and especially how he loves.

Tried watching this last night and gave up after forty minutes, which I don't do often. Although Gondry has done some beautiful work here with stop-motion animation thats a feast for the eye, the story plays like an exhausted hallucination, disjointed and frustrating, much of it owing to the lack of chemistry between the characters and the sheer confusion of the dialogue.It's hard to put into words the train wreck this film is. It was all too much. Too much scenery, too much thought, too much into every scene to try and get what was going on.Not for me.