Just caught the week-long, annual French Film Festival last week. Of all 7 movies shown, I caught 6 of them. Here's my check list:
The one that left the deepest impression is La Science des Rêves. I love it despite all its quirkiness and the experimentation of mixing realities with the world of dreams in the roughest manner you could imagine, it's literally a cut-and-paste art project from grade school. Yet the handling of the storyline is truly a classy league of its own.
PLOT:
Stéphane Miroux returns to Paris to work in a printing firm that makes calendars. His vivid dreams are a compensation for the dull life he leads. In his dream, before his cardboard cameras, he invents a television program about dreams. In real life, he meets Stéphanie, his neighbour, and falls in love with her. Initially charmed by this astonishing young man’s strange behaviour, it then scares her away and Stéphanie rejects him. Inadequate in the art of seduction, Stéphane decides to find the solution to his problem in the realm where imagination is king. (Courtesy of GSC)
I can truly empathize with the leading man, Stéphane, his awkwardness around people, his inability to separate life from fiction, though it is his passion for life and love is what I wish I could have expressed so fluently, in reality or fantasy. His suffocating sense of being in love and finding a soul mate is certainly the kind of reality we've all experienced before, or have yet to experience. Even the leading lady, Stéphanie's reluctance to disclose her true feeling is very much understandable.
A lot of us fear that the stripping down of our emotions will leave us bare and vulnerable. The tug of love is so much in tuned within many lonely souls here, it feels like I'm watching myself in the movie. I wish there could be more movie opportunity like this because I simply crave for great moments like this on the silver screen.
