La science des rêves (The Science of Sleep) 2006 M

Production still from The Science of Sleep 2006 / Director: Michel Gondry / Image courtesy: Umbrella Entertainment / View full image
When
8.30 pm, Fri 25 Jul 2025 (105 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema B
Accessibility
- Subtitled
About
"Based on a bedtime story written by a 10-year-old, Michel Gondry’s wondrous romantic fantasy is a surrealist’s delight and a love letter to the infinite possibilities of cinema. Gael García Bernal plays Stéphane, a charmingly and sometimes alarmingly awkward young man who arrives in Paris from Mexico following the death of his father. There, he strikes up a flirtation with the girl across the hall (Charlotte Gainsbourg)—but things go off-the-walls awry when Stéphane’s dreams begin to intrude on his reality. Gondry unleashes a grab bag of eye-popping cinematic tricks—ingeniously handmade puppet creations, stop-motion flights of fancy, and gizmos like a one-second time machine—to evoke the crazy-quilt logic of the unconscious." Film at Lincoln Centre
M | Moderate coarse language, Moderate sexual references
Production Credits
- Director: Michel Gondry
- Script: Michel Gondry
- Cinematographer: Jean-Louis Bompoint
- Editor: Juliette Welfling
- Cast: Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat
- Print Source: National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Canberra
- Rights: Umbrella Entertainment
- Year: 2006
- Runtime: 105 minutes
- Countries: France, Italy
- Languages: French, English, Spanish
- Subtitles: English
- Sound: Stereo
- Colour: Colour
- Shooting Format: 35mm
- Screening Format: 35mm