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16 August 2006 (France) moreTagline:
Close your eyes. Open your heart. morePlot:
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world. full summary | full synopsisAwards:
4 wins & 3 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Michel Gondry directing Green hornet (From TotalFilm. 25 February 2009, 6:35 PM, PST)
Michel Gondry will direct Green hornet
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A cardboard and cellophane dream world moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Gael García Bernal | ... | Stéphane Miroux | |
| Charlotte Gainsbourg | ... | Stéphanie | |
| Alain Chabat | ... | Guy | |
| Miou-Miou | ... | Christine Miroux | |
| Pierre Vaneck | ... | Monsieur Pouchet | |
| Emma de Caunes | ... | Zoé | |
| Aurélia Petit | ... | Martine | |
| Sacha Bourdo | ... | Serge | |
| Stéphane Metzger | ... | Sylvain | |
| Alain de Moyencourt | ... | Gérard (as Decourt Moyen) | |
| Inigo Lezzi | ... | Monsieur Persinnet | |
| Yvette Petit | ... | Ivana | |
| Jean-Michel Bernard | ... | Piano-playing Policeman | |
| Eric Mariotto | ... | Policeman | |
| Bertrand Delpierre | ... | Présentateur JT |
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Rated R for language, some sexual content and nudity.Parents Guide:
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USA:105 minColor:
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1.85 : 1 moreCertification:
UK:15 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Canada:PG (British Columbia) | Netherlands:MG6 | Finland:K-7 | Norway:A | Hong Kong:IIA | Sweden:7 | Ireland:15A | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Argentina:13 | Singapore:M18 | South Korea:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Australia:M | New Zealand:M | Peru:14 | USA:R (certificate #42692)Fun Stuff
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Michel Gondry didn't use any chroma keys in this film (excepts the one you see explicitly in Stephane TV), but he screened the FX sequence (already done before the shooting with step-by-step method) behind the actors, so that they could see it and not imagine it, which gives them a different way of playing their parts. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Stephane: ¡Un, dos, tres, cuatro!
[Stéphane plays the drums, then the piano, then moves the cameras. "Stéphane TV"]
Stephane: Hi, and welcome back to another episode of "Télévision Educative". Tonight, I'll show you how dreams are prepared. People think it's a very simple and easy process but it's a bit more complicated than that. As you can see, a very delicate combination of complex ingredients is the key. First, we put in some random thoughts. And then, we add a little bit of reminiscences of the day... mixed with some memories from the past.
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THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP (Michael Gondry - France/Italy 2006).
There's something magical about this wonderfully sweet romantic fantasy by Michael Gondry. A love story, emotionally rich with dazzling dream-like visuals, done the old-fashioned way with simple stop-motion animation techniques. We see Stéphane flying above his cardboard imagination of Paris and later, we see him sitting in the bathtub full of silver cellophane. It's Gondry's first film as writer-director after a two-feature partnership with Philip Kaufman. Not surprisingly, it feels a bit Kaufmanesque, as Gondry's previous "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", but now dreams have replaced memory.
Stéphane can hardly make the distinction between his own dreamworld and the outside reality and doesn't know a whole lot about love. For no apparent reason he lies to Stéphanie that he lives next door to her, which results in some comic situations. He also wants to be an inventor and so he gives her his 3-D glasses, 'but the world is already in 3-D', she replies. He is a man-child, unable to adjust himself to the everyday realities of the outside world.
Ultimately the relationship between Stéphane and Stéphanie ends in a kind of stalemate, and so does the film itself. How do you end a film? With most films I can't wait till it's over, but here it seemed like the last twenty minutes got lost in the editing room. A very abrupt ending. The film might have a bit of an unsatisfying resolution, but Gondry creates magic here. It's the dreamworld that makes this rise above the level of just another romantic comedy, and it's funny, very funny. The breathtaking stop-motion animation is a feast for the eye and the sets and creations are wonderful to look at. The film had me in a permanent smile.
Camera Obscura --- 8/10