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...director Michel Gondry’s latest effort, a company named Lacuna Incorporated has acquired the technology to erase the foul taste of a past partner. Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) discovers this after tracing a note to ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet), asking mutual friends not to raise his name in conversation with her. Since the ex is not supposed to see these notes, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), the inventor of the treatment and the founder of Lacuna, agrees to perform the operation on Joel as well. The centerpiece of the movie begins as Joel slowly realizes that, though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...giving Hollywood a Gallic accent. Far from a car crash, his career has just shifted into high gear. Eternal Sunshine tells the story, in real time and through flashbacks, of lovers Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet). When their affair fails, Clementine signs up with Lacuna Inc. for a brainwashing process that wipes away all memories of Joel. He finds out and tries to do the same of Clem. But what happens when, midwash, he decides he doesn't want to erase her after all? Gondry got the idea from Pierre Bismuth, an artist friend, about four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here Comes The Sun | 4/18/2004 | See Source »

...director Michel Gondry’s latest effort, a company named Lacuna Incorporated has acquired the technology to erase the foul taste of a past partner. Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) discovers this after tracing a note to ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet), asking mutual friends not to raise his name in conversation with her. Since the ex is not supposed to see these notes, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), the inventor of the treatment and the founder of Lacuna, agrees to perform the operation on Joel as well. The centerpiece of the movie begins as Joel slowly realizes that, though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

This is one of the many warped ideas flowing through director Michel Gondry’s latest effort, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In the film, a company named Lacuna Incorporated has acquired the technology to erase the foul taste of a past partner. Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) discovers this after tracing a note to ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet), asking mutual friends not to raise his name in conversation with her. Since the ex is not supposed to see these notes, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak (Tom Wilkinson), the inventor of the treatment and the founder of Lacuna, agrees...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Review: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

...children from buying cigarettes. In the ad, a bunch of kids dressed for a prom attempt to buy smokes from a kindly yet firm store owner, who tells us that belonging to the We Card program makes it easier for him to turn down the kids. There is a lacuna in logic here, but the point, apparently, is that Philip Morris opposes killing anyone until he reaches majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Redemption: It's Good for Business | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

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