Providing this dubious treatment is Lacuna Inc., whose funky young technicians identify and delete their clients’ troublesome recollections. Thus, it might be surprising to some that his latest tale, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, follows the universally familiar romantic pattern of “boy meets girl, boy loses girl” - that is, until the point in the story where “boy arranges to have all memory of girl erased.”Įternal Sunshine tells the tragicomic story of Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet), a loving yet hopelessly mismatched couple who, after breaking up, decide to have their painful memories of each other permanently removed. The plots of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s bizarre movies ( Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) have always defied easy description. At top, distraught Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) frantically attempts to stop the process which he's already put into motion. Shot by Ellen Kuras, ASC and directed by Michel Gondry, this innovative tragicomic drama explores a man’s fight to retain his romantic memories.
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