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"&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;France&amp;apos;s Michel Gondry &amp;#x2014; best known for directing music videos for Bjork and Beck, commercials for Smirnoff and the Gap, and movies for audiences willing to take the meandering (&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/human-nature-20020327\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Human Nature&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) along with the mesmerizing (&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind-20040310\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Dave Chappelle&amp;apos;s Block Party&lt;/em&gt;) &amp;#x2014; doesn&amp;apos;t see the world the way the rest of us do. This is all to the good, especially in the wildly inventive &lt;em&gt;Science of Sleep&lt;/em&gt;, which takes place mostly among the cascading dreams in Gondry&amp;apos;s head. Using the ardent and appealing Mexican actor Gael Garc&amp;apos;a Bernal (&lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/y-tu-mama-tambien-20020329\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y Tu Mama Tambien&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=\"../../../movies/reviews/the-motorcycle-diaries-20040924\"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Motorcycle Diaries&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) as his stand-in, Gondry visits the real world only as a takeoff point. Bernal plays Stephane, a shy artist who returns to Paris to live with his mother (Miou-Miou) after his father&amp;apos;s death. Mom gets him a dull job setting type, which only inspires him to greater flights of romantic fancy, involving a neighbor named Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and a series of fantastical visions that jump off the screen as they obliterate all traces of the mundane. Fusing animation and live action with a series of outrageous props, Gondry veers dangerously close to being precious. But make no mistake: Gondry&amp;apos;s hallucinatory brilliance holds you in thrall.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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