Last night we went to see Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep at the Coolidge Corner Theater. A great movie and a great theater. Karl first introduced me to Gondry with a DVD he has of Gondry’s music videos, which is among our most frequently watched DVDs. It just doesn’t get old.

This movie continues Gondry’s style of whimsy and surrealism developed in the music videos and in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. There isn’t a whole lot of story in The Science of Sleep, but the visuals, the characters, and the sheer creativity of it all kept me on the edge of my seat. It’s set in Paris, but mostly in five or six small rooms that morph into each other and into other worlds as dream morphs into reality. It was not clear cut like The Big Lebowski. I was always asking, “Is this a dream or a reality?” So was Stéphane, the main character, lost in his own intense creativity.

I’d like to see Gondry collaborate with Wes Anderson on a movie. Lets have Anderson write the script and Gondry bring the cardboard schizophrenia.