"The Science of Sleep" **1/2 (out of four): Visionary director Michel Gondry is stymied by his own script in this whimsical, messy French confection.

Michel Gondry is a director to watch. Regardless of the medium (short, feature-length, music video), you can count on him to come up with something visually stunning. In the lightly autobiographical “The Science of Sleep (La Science des Rêves)”, Mr. Gondry turns his whimsical eye towards a script of his own creation – and that may be the problem with the film. Without a script from his frequent collaborator Charlie Kaufman – with whom he made the masterful “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” as well as the unfairly-ignored trifle “Human Nature” – Mr. Gondry’s “Science” goes too far into the realm of fantasy and lacks a crucial grounding that could have made it truly fantastic.

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