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If Hollywood today has a patron saint, it's surely Peter Pan. Where our movies once celebrated men's men like John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart, they're now obsessed with overgrown boys like Leonardo diCaprio, Johnny Depp, and Adam Sandler. This fascination reaches its lighthearted peak in The Science of Sleep, the quirky Sundance hit about a young man who can't tell where the real world ends and his daydreams begin. Gael Garcia Bernal stars as Stephane, a fervently inventive graphic artist who returns to Paris after years in Mexico only to get stuck doing cut-and-paste commercial calendars alongside a group of bored office drones. Seeking an outlet for his teeming imagination, Stephane becomes fascinated by Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), the wryly intelligent girl next door, who views this strange fellow with a fine Gallic dis_interest-at first, anyway.
The Science of Sleep was written and directed by Michel Gondry, the French music-video wizard best known for directing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Gondry is famous for his head-trippy style, and from the opening moments-inside an imaginary TV studio, complete with cardboard cameras, that represents ...