From the director of 'Eternal Sunshine...' comes this largely abstract piece, blurring the dreams and reality of a Spanish guy living in France, who apparently sometimes speaks English as well. The beginning of the film sees his dream life and his reality clearly distinct from each other, but as the film progresses, the two blur as he falls for the girl across the hall and invites her into his blurred reality.
The visuals were amazing - bright and abstract and very child like in some ways, but very adult in others. His dream world, according to the people i was with, was very much like their own (but nothing like mine, apparently my dreams are quite dull in comparison, although I have grown quite fond of them!) which I think allowed them to relate to this film a little more than I did. Additionally, i failed to find some of his *ahem* quirks endearing as we were asked to believe the girl across the hall did, which added to my detachment from the film.
However, adding the most to my detachment was the fact that I was absolutely exhausted and actually slept for at least a 3rd of this film, and probably wasn't paying as much attention as I could to the rest of it. I cry post migraine pain as my excuse but honestly, this film really did fail to get me in at the beginning as much as I thought it was going to. I was so convinced I would find this as charming and quirky as everyone else that I went along thinking it would keep me awake. Apparently not!! I was grumpy afterwards and even called this 'quirky for the sake of being quirky' in a very sour tone, which is unlike me - i usually love quirk! this being so uncharacteristic of me, I am prepared to give this a second viewing before I pass judgement with a rating!
At this stage it's a 6 - but I'm open to liking it more the second time.
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