Ray Pride

(La science des reves) Michel Gondry's first writing-directing mashup, "The Science of Sleep," is a gentle, leisurely, Paris-set shaggy-sheep romantic comedy about dreams and prehensile romantic longings, with tiny Latin heartthrob Gael Garcia-Bernal playing young Stephan, an illustrator fixated on visions of apocalypse, fantasizing, awake and asleep, of tall, lithe, plain-beautiful Charlotte Gainsbourg. Fans of Gondry's videos will recognize a wealth of his gimmicks, tricks and fixations, and welcome them in such giddy profusion. It's lovely, and an interesting study in how it differs from the schema of Charlie Kaufman, who wrote Gondry's two previous features, the sweet "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and the dreadful "Human Nature." 105m.

"The Science of Sleep" opens Friday.

(2006-09-26)

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