Meet Marc, a tax inspector who “loves women,” in this just fine film.

Though not everyone will enjoy it, the first part of Lars Von Trier’s sex epic, NYMPHOMANIAC, is his most consistently engaging and entertaining film in years.

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…