It is an unsettling film, one that doesn’t look or sound like anything else.

The newest Charlie Kaufman film is as difficult a film to figure out as you’ll see all year. It is without a doubt the most complex and intricate script the screenwriter has ever written, and from the writer of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich, that’s saying a lot. It is easily the most philosophically thought-provoking film to see major release in years. It is a film that is intimidating in…

Michel Gondry’s latest film, La science des rêves (The science of dreams), opened last Friday in Washington under its American title, The Science of Sleep. After an extended period working in the United States, notably in collaboration with the screenwriter Charlie Kaufman on Human Nature and the Oscar-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gondry has returned to his roots and set this film in his old stomping ground, the 18th arrondissement of Paris. As…