La science des rêves...(20/8)

Michel Gondry's new work! Much expected, the film continues Gondry's study of dream and reality...carrying the success of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gondry makes full use of his success formula with creativity and imagination packaged in a story of love. The film is good but well, it is just always some balance between the work and my high expectation I had before entering the cinema. As Gondry produces work to let his audience coming out with fun and joy, the work is successful. Projecting his unique attractiveness to the camera world, the film was empowered by plenty scenes of lovely toys and animations - an extension to his dreamland in his previous MV works. The casting is nice - featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Gael Garcia Bernal, the story of neighborhood love was filmed in a decent manner. The styling of Charlotte Gainsbourg was very pleasant and she does carry a nice charisma inherited from Jane Birkin. The story talks about the dilemma between reality and dream, an attempt to study and conquer the dream, a methodology to project a meaning of existence through dreams. A cartoon-way demonstration is what Gondry brands in his big screen. The set design and props were the winning elements in the film, and with the handy toys like the cardboard vehicles, the mega hands, the stuffed-toy telephone and the colour plastic flips for the sea the boat was looking for in the film, the animated world became the inventive playground of the two characters Stephane and Stephanie. Not sure if Gondry would like to tribute Burroughs' and Cronenberg's typewriters with his animated version but they appeared nice in the dream. The story is tragic in a sense that the ending rested between the dream and the reality. Perhaps what we have in the dream would always be lovelier, be it a sweet dream or a nightmare, it is just a dream and we still have another chance to start a new one by closing our eyes.
The film will be on screen in US in this fall, and actually I feel that a direct translation of an Eng name 'The Science of Dreams' should be a better choice than the currently named 'The Science of Sleep'. The film has two versions of trailer for France and US. Having a manner of editing and picks in the two trailers, you may have an understanding on the difference between the French cinema and the Hollywood production.
US Version:
http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wip/us/med/scienceofsleep/science_of_sleep_the_tlr1_qt_700.mov
French Version:
http://www.gaumont.fr/films/sleep/video/sdr_fa_qtlarge.mov

Coincided with my thought, the film creates a branched website named howdoyoudream.com (check http://thescienceofsleep.imeem.com/blogs), and people can simply post their dreams on the blog. I did this occasionally here on my blog but as a collective manner of storage, this provides an easier means to a proof of my belief that dream actually intersects and interacts within people...at least this is my thought.