Subscribe to the Stream On Demand weekly newsletter (your E-mail address will not be shared) and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Availability may vary by service.Įternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind ĭon’t miss a single recommendation. It won an Academy Award for Charlie Kaufman’s brilliant screenplay and Kate Winslet earned an Oscar nomination for her performance.Īlso on Blu-ray and DVD and SVOD through Amazon Video and other services. Feeling unsatisfied Giamatti decides to exchange his souls via a specialist company, but things take a turn for the worse when he decides he. Much like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the movie is filled with strange imagery and has an equally surreal concept. When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories. 10 Cold Souls (2009) Paul Giamatti stars as Paul Giamatti in 2009s Cold Souls. With Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Gerry Robert Byrne, Elijah Wood. Tom Wilkinson co-stars as the professorial head of Lacuna, Kirsten Dunst his adoring assistant, and Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood the goofball technicians on the search-and-destroy mission through Joel’s memories. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Directed by Michel Gondry. Gondry connects with this sad lot on a profound level, mining regret in their quick fix solutions to life’s little tragedies, but he also finds hope in the human spirit, and the realization that the joys in taking a chance on love outweigh the emptiness of heart armored against hurt. The wacky sight gags and psycho-drama slapstick is tinged with melancholy and regret as Joel realizes that his experiences, good and bad, are what make him who he is, and he feels a little of himself die as his life with Clem slips away. He dashes through his mindscape in a cerebral game of hide-and-seek, like a doomed target relentlessly chased by a video game player. Kaufman’s script (from a story he co-wrote with director Michel Gondry) is full of conflict, frustration, and failing, strained relationships-between Joel, Clem, and the entire crew of Lacuna-but once the cleansing process begins, Joel’s subconscious fights to hold on those memories. Only later do Kaufman’s trademark weirdnesses and mind-games begin: after a bad break-up, Clem has the entire affair wiped from her memory by Lacuna Inc., and Joel follows suit. You wouldn’t even know it was his work from the opening of the film, an awkwardly sweet romantic flirtation between shy sad sack Joel (Jim Carrey in his least mannered and most unselfconscious performance to date) and Clementine (Kate Winslet), an impulsive, emotionally restless girl in blue hair and a carnival-colored wardrobe. Charlie Kaufman, the screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, offers his most poignant and touching work in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).
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