Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Kaufman also wrote Being John Malkovitch and Adaptation ...
Washing That Girl Out of His Head
By ELVIS MITCHELL
NYTimes Review (Free Registration Required)
Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root- canal patient trying out a pleasant expression for his oral surgeon. In Michel Gondry's "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" — a title that will frustrate ushers trying to abbreviate it for marquees — Mr. Carrey finally understands that he needn't cut a character off from pleasure, and so his Joel Barish is serious rather than anestheticized. But this angular and intelligent romantic comedy isn't entirely consistent. Even as you laugh, it's a movie you admire more than love.
Salon.com review
This is French director Michel Gondry's second full-length movie, written by Charlie Kaufman (with whom Gondry also collaborated on his first picture, the 2000 "Human Nature"). In "Eternal Sunshine," Jim Carrey plays Joel, a man who arranges to have every memory of his ex-girlfriend, Clementine (Kate Winslet), erased from his brain, only to realize that those memories may be more dear to him than the failed union itself: They're all he's got left.
Trailer on Apple.com
Official Site
2nd Official Site
Also fun:
http://www.beingcharliekaufman.com/
Director File. Michel Gondry
Music video by Gondry done for the film
Friday, March 19, 2004
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