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FiyaStarter RATING =  (4½)FiyaballsMovie Review The Science of Sleep
Do you know how disheartening it is for me to wait week after week for a good movie to materialize? The waits are long and terrible. I wish I were like Reggie, who can go see anything and find joy in the smallest details of a horrible film. I'm not built that way. Film is not entertainment for me. It's art. Junk like Crank and The Covenant are not art and I refuse to see it. However, Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep is a towering piece of art that is both stimulating to pretentious hipster-fags like myselr, yet accessible enough for idiots who think Back to The Future is deep. The creative force that brought us Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gondry not only directs Sleep, but he wrote it as well. His tale of Stéphane, a ultra-imaginative Mexican artist (Gael Garcia Bernal in an Oscar-worthy performance), who returns to his native France after the death of his father is as surrealist as it is sobering, as it confronts death, life and the search for love, happiness and understanding. His landlady mother allows him to stay in her flat, where he meets Stéphanie, (Charlotte Gainsbourg, an actress who should be ugly, but somehow isn't) his equal in weirdness and emotional isolation. The only problem is that he prefers Stéphanie's friend Zoe, the kind of normal looking and normal acting woman that would never hold Stéphane's attention after she allows him a few pokes. But, it's only a matter of time before he recognizes the charm and uniqueness of Stéphanie, who collects and makes really strange...stuff. Their affection grows when the two collaborate on crafting a little boat with paper trees growing out of it that floats on cellophane water. "WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!?" you say? Exactly. Adding to the comedic foundation of the film is Stéphane's work. His mother sets him up with a job working at a calendar-making firm as a lowly type-setter. His co-workers are a motley crew of fuck-ups and sexual perverts, who still manage to be more sane than Stéphane, who floats in and out of a dreamlike state throughout the day. Alan Chabat is particularly excellent as Guy, a perv who can't edit his thoughts before they come tumbling out of his mouth. The first great film of Fall is here. Go see it, bitches.
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Finally! Fall is here and I have a good movie to recommend to you people. 