After seeing the previews for this film a month or so ago, I knew that I really wanted to see it the second it came out. Unfortunately, it's getting an incredibly limited release as opposed to Michel Gondry's previous film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but luckily there's a small theater I found that was showing it somewhat near me. The only problem was the mass of elderly people making out and loitering in the parking lot.
The Science of Sleep is a surreal journey that seems to start you running all over the face of the Earth in its entirety but after the fact, you realize you never went anywhere. I found it to be one of the most entertaining and invocative movies that I've seen within the year, easily. The film draws a border around language, active thought and perception and jumbles it all together and then throws it to the wind. There's three active languages all spoken commonly throughout, English, French and Spanish. Sometimes the three are sliced together randomly and somewhat naturally cast aside at times.
Dreams and their contrast with reality, are a thing that interest me greatly, so it's quite obvious that I'd really like the movie, but I don't think it's a film that will garner alot fans in places it didn't already have. I guess that's why it is playing in such small venues. But really, if you get a chance to see this film, do it. It's a beautiful and futile thing.
