Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman

Kaufman's story of a man going into a surreal dream world is not too dissimilar from his earlier work, 'Being John Malkovich'. Kate Winslet is also brilliant as his unpredictable, adventurous girlfriend. Out of all the perfomances where he has stepped into the dramtic role (The Truman Show, Man on the Moon, The Majestic), this has got to be his best yet. He performs with sensitivity and warmth, never once verging on the manic rubber faced lunacy to which he is most well known for. If anyone was in doubt as to whether Jim Carrey can act, this is the film that will put all doubt out of the way. Much to Joel's distress, he decides to do the same, but during his operation he revisits memories of Clementine that he struggles to let go of. Dr Howard Mierwick (Tom Wilkinson) has performed an operation on her brain after Clementine visited his clinic to forget Joel. He later finds out that the reason for this is that Clementine has had her memory of Joel wiped out completely. A short while after their split, he meets her again while she is working at a library and he is stunned to discover that she doesn't recognise him.

'Eternal Sunshine' centres around the life of Joel (Jim Carrey) a shy, mild mannered man who is heart broken after splitting from his feisty, impulsive girlfriend, Clementine (Kate Winslet). With a name like Jim Carrey, this second collaboration couldn't go wrong in terms of box office success, and nor should it as this film is quite simply brilliant. After a lukewarm reception in 2001 with 'Human Nature', Charlie Kaufman has teamed up with director, Michel Gondry again for this romatic fantasy.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Charlie Kaufman