Due in March, "The Science of Sleep" stars Gael García Bernal ("The Motorcycle Diaries," "Y Tu Mamá También") as an over-imaginative dreamer and Charlotte Gainsbourg — daughter of late French pop star Serge Gainsbourg and British singer Jane Birkin — as his love interest.
Gondry has said in the past that the film is a loose interpretation of the "Everlong" video he shot for the Foo Fighters in 1997, where a man saves his girlfriend from hellions in a dream world. An English-language film with a mostly French cast, the story is set in Paris in an apartment building Gondry used to live in (the film also stars French actress Emma De Caunes, who, incidentally, appeared in the contentious "Knives Out" video).
The director, who is currently putting the finishing touches on the picture, said the story centres on a daydreamer who retreats into his visions and begins to confuse them with reality. "It's about dreams and rejections," Gondry said in his thick (and often impenetrable) French accent. "[The protagonist] has a very vivid dream life and his real life is more of a disappointment. He meets his neighbor, who he starts to fall in love with ..." he paused, as though feeling he was about to reveal too much. "Most of the film is in reality, but parts play out in his dreams." | 
