The Science of Sleep

The Science of Sleep (105 min)

Seen on the 24th May 2008

I really did not get this film. Perhaps it was the fact I was tired and it was late on a Saturday. Gael Garcia Bernal is a truly imaginative young Mexican boy who arrives in Paris. You soon discover his parents divorces and his mother is French but has an affair. He sort of misses his country but becomes involved in a pseudo relationship with his neighbour.

Because of his wild imagination, the world of his dreams and the real one become one. The neighbour, an aspiring artist, becomes to a degree his partner in crime and follows the flow. But she became tired of this strange love affair and the fact that Gael Garcia does not seem to do anything productive towards the relationship. The animations are supposed to be great but I did not see that really. What is the film about? A wild dreamer and his artistic girl? Cultural shock? A broken boy in search of his mother? Animations? All of that? Perhaps it is the latest achieving very little.