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Life seems to be looking up for shy and withdrawn Stephane when he is coaxed to return to his childhood home with the promise of a job in the mundane world of copy setting. Wildly creative, his fancif...( read more 
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MCT:November 2, 2008
One of those movies where you either love it or hate it, I found the main character annoying in his childish, needy behavior yet could relate to many other of his fantasies/emotions...not usually a fan of the artistic type effects they used but I felt it gave it that special touch in this movie.
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MCT:November 2, 2008
I wanted to love this film but the twist in the end just didn't flow with the sweetness of the film's theme.
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MCT:October 31, 2008This by far was one of the WORST movies I've ever seen, I even clapped at the end when the credits rolled. It was sporatic, boring, made no real sense, and who dreams like that?
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MCT:October 17, 2008
Life seems to be looking up for shy and withdrawn Stephane (Gael Garcia Bernal) when he is coaxed to return to his childhood home in France by his mother with the promise of a job. Wildly creative, his fanciful and sometimes disturbing dream life constantly threatens to usurp his waking world. But his joy is muted when he discovers that the job is actually a mundane copy setting position in a tiny office with three co-workers, including one (Alain Chabat) hungry for someone to entertain him and a boss who would prefer to be perpetually left alone.
However, that disappointment is overshadowed when Stephane meets his new next door neighbour, Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and her friend, Zoe. Initially mistaken for an injured furniture mover upon first meeting the two young women, and too shy to correct them, Stephanie then must pretend that he doesn?t actually live next door in order to continue the growing friendship with Stephanie.
Stephanie is not nearly as adept at lying as he is at creating and the girls soon learn the truth. Initially attracted to Zoe, he is quickly drawn to Stephanie as her imagination easily matches his own. He enlists and engages her in his various creative projects and inventions and joyfully begins to let her into the confused but colourful world of his mind. And almost inexplicable charmed by him, Stephanie somehow finds the key to the heart of Stephane?s fragile artist. As their relationship blossoms, the confidence he exudes in his fanciful dream life begins bleeding over to his real life as it never had before with Stephane finding success, dispatching villains and looking toward a happy, magical future with Stephanie.
However, just as he finds popularity with the successful publishing of a calendar featuring his illustrations, he becomes distraught over the perceived rejection of his feelings by Stephanie. But did she really reject him? Or through his insecurities, did he simply imagine the scenario which has left him romantically adrift yet again? Unable to bear the prospect of a waking world without Stephanie?s love and with no satisfying solutions coming out of his dream world, Stephane faces a dilemma he may not be able to depend on the science of sleep to help him solve. -
MCT:October 14, 2008an incredible journey into consciousness, the thin line between the dream world and reality, and a inventor/syvant lost in translation and good looks and being 'creative' in a non-creative world. do you think the main character is somewhat skitzophrentic having paranoid illusions of the girl being in love with him? its a very American way of looking at it, since they see psycho-analysis different in France. but who knows? the movie obviously makes me think and that's why its the best movie i've seen since 'The Diving Bell & The Butterfly.'
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kristen121212posted 406 days ago -
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This movie was very intense and you get into the story from the begening. It's like a dream in which you get confused between reality and ireality. A very philosophical film, that not everybody likes.
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