breezy performance by Gael Garcia Bernal.
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he displayed in music videos for the Chemical Brothers and Bjork, Sleep, a self-penned, visually vibrant romantic fantasy.
Set in France, it tells of the frustrated artistic and amorous wants to be a visual artist, but lands a dull job in a small by oddballs.
neighbour Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg).
She likes Stephane, but not in the way he likes her.
With much of his waking life beyond his control, Stephane follows the Walter Mitty route by taking refuge in his dreams, where he runs a television studio made of cardboard.
increasingly blurred, Gondry indulges all manner of visual trickery while always keeping in focus the emotional heart of his tender, quirk-filled love story.
Notably, Gondry eschews the dazzle and smoothness of digital effects for a deliberately rough analog look, using stopmotion animation, crude visual composites and sets that were literally cut and pasted together out of odds and ends.
Even more impressive, though, is the wonderfully breezy performance Gondry elicits from Bernal. After his serious turns in comic world of quirks, contraptions and strange ideas with a commitment that is as obvious as it is enjoyable to watch.
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