stoic boston videos World Cinema:: Review of the movie "Science of Sleep (Science of Sleep, The)",

Like many brilliant directors of our days, Michel Gondry for a long time working out the skill in music videos and commercials. Short films also did, but only for their own or - for example, "home", my brothers birthday - or just too wild, like the opus about a piece of shit who jumped out of a toilet for his, shall we say, creator, shouting "Daddy, what you rejected me? ". Taking off a couple of dozen videos (including Bjork, Massive Attack, Chemical Brothers), Gondry mastered the techniques necessary to distill the film copies of dreams (the application technique or puppet animation, for example). Then fix the result for a couple of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman in the feature film "Eternal Sunshine of the passions" (well, actually before it was "Feral nature", but its true, false start).

And now - a benefit, a great film, whose script Gondry wrote completely independently. If you think about it, "Science of Sleep" - it is expected the project. Because it is this fun science Gondry klipmeykerskuyu his entire career and doing. Film begins with a panorama-yourself TV studio, as if running in my head hero Gael Garcia Bernal. And then with the character is a lot of things strange - so, for example, it is child cork gun in his hand trying to escape from police in a cardboard type or is in the office of the chief, together with the rest of the staff, dressed in fur-bearing animals, and singing "After Hours" Velvet Underground.

From this, however, do not need to conclude that on the basis klipmeykerstva people fall into a heavy, unrestrained insanity. Here is the thing: at the very quiet album VU, which is called simply "The Velvet Underground", FDta song played last. If you play a record for the night, then, as a rule, to "After Hours" is already asleep, and the music is heard dimly through slumber. Its not only the bosss office with little animals, but in general the devil knows what may be imagined. So with Gondry: no matter what he says in his head are not words, but only the picture. Yes - it seems that this story about love, it seems, there is a young man Stephane (Bernal) flirts with a girl named Stephanie (Charlotte Ginzbur). Stephen seems to be sick - can not distinguish dream from reality. But all this is inaccurate and not so important, we do not really understand where the movie a dream, but where is the reality. What exactly - it is that the heroes on a rag toy horse fly over the city. Thats about it and you can tell your friends breathless after the session. A search for meaning leave compilers .