Memorable, crazy movie

I wanted to but couldn't!

The acting in this movie is really good.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

A wonderful little film that works on many levels: 1. A mix of live action and animation which instantly puts it in rarified space. Very few films like this have ever been attempted.2. A Python-esque story coming from ... France? The Brits would be horrified. And it works well.3. Has the intense dialog and blown-up social comedy that Euro films are known for. That works too.4. Story is clever, the protagonist has trouble distinguishing between reality and sleep -- a condition, his mother says, he has had since a child. Also works well.5. Casting is fascinating. The guy played by Gael García Bernal is an Alain Delon look-a-like and everyone in the story knows it. Looking great (in film and I think real life) gives him the right to do outrageous things and get forgiven. But the love interest in this quirky (and fun) rom-com arc is played by Charlotte Gainsbourg who is appealing and simpatico but not conventionally beautiful. Again, this works well.6. Of course -- you knew this! -- the writer and director are one and the same, Highly creative films like this always are the work of a single creative mind.A lost gem.

When Stephane (Gael Garcia Bernal) moves in next door to Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg) he falls in love but the creative refuge of his dreams confounds his real life desires. It is a beautiful film that speaks to us of the child within in us and our inability to reconcile the naiveté, purity and creativity of the early years with the demands of our older years. The world that director Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) creates for us, is a world full of homemade creative invention that flows through dreams and reality, the borders ever fuzzy.Resonant with the main film itself, is the stop-motion homemade film that Stephane and Stephanie embark on together. One senses that it is a fertile world for love to grow and Stephanie's gentle soul is best symbolized by a little stitched horse that Stephane animates and that leaps with joy and delight.It is the insecurities of the real world though that bring a sadness to the story. The inability of Stephane to understand the rituals and responsibilities of romantic love pushes her away as he sinks deeper into his world. The final poignant moment has her stroking his hair as he sleeps, perhaps part mother and part longing. At that moment she is what he desired all along and yet he is in the faraway land of his dreams as he rides away with her on the stitched horse.

This film is not bad, for me. Actually, this film is a bit interesting. But you shouldn't watch this film with your boyfriend or girlfriend because this film is french film. This film is very enjoyable for me but it is very fragmented. Stephane entranced in his dreams and he didn't understood that he was in dream or he was in real life. In fact, I and my friend didn't understood that:)) At the end of the film, Stéphane and Stéphanie were very happy and this is very important to me. And I want to say that Stéphane's inventions was very great. He invented a time machine for Stéphanie. I am supporting their love. Congratulations to filmmakers.

Tried watching this last night and gave up after forty minutes, which I don't do often. Although Gondry has done some beautiful work here with stop-motion animation thats a feast for the eye, the story plays like an exhausted hallucination, disjointed and frustrating, much of it owing to the lack of chemistry between the characters and the sheer confusion of the dialogue.It's hard to put into words the train wreck this film is. It was all too much. Too much scenery, too much thought, too much into every scene to try and get what was going on.Not for me.