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Directed by Michel Gondry...
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...
...Sunshine, Michel Gondry keeps the story rooted in the essential horror of finding your best memories being slowly deleted, always making the audience care for Joel as a man, rather than blowing away characterization for the sake of wonderment at the increasingly inventive set pieces. But, boy, are those set pieces cool. The best example can be found in a scene where Joel and Clementine run across Grand Central Station as the people they pass are slowly erased. It’s the film world’s first existential action scene...
Kaufman is sitting next to director Michel Gondry to promote their soon-to-be-released collaboration, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which Jim Carrey joins the growing list of actors who have played some version of Kaufman’s harried hero. The writer’s sense of humor, it becomes clear, is no more Carrey-esque in real life than it is on celluloid—at least, not in that mid-90s sense, when the world knew Sunshine’s star as the spastic man behind The Mask. Kaufman will at no point shout...
...think I could take Michel,” he says, eyeing the auteur. “I can’t say that about a lot of people...