
#123movies #fmovies #putlocker #gomovies #solarmovie #soap2day Watch Full Movie Online Free – Following the death of his father in Mexico, Stéphane Miroux, a shy insecure young man, agrees to come to Paris to draw closer to his widowed mother Christine. He lands a boring job at a calendar-making firm and falls in love with his charming neighbor Stéphanie. But conquering her is no bed of roses for the young man and the only solution he finds to put up with the difficulties he is going through is escape into a dream world…
Plot: A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
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A cardboard and cellophane dream world
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
Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min)
Budget 6000000
Revenue 9524340
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Director Michel Gondry
Writer Michel Gondry
Actors Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat, Miou-Miou
Country France, Italy, USA
Awards 7 wins & 9 nominations.
Production Company Partizan
Website N/A
Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS (US prints)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Laboratoires Éclair, Paris, France, Partizan Lab, Paris, France, Technicolor (prints)
Film Length 2,925 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna 500T 8573)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm