Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet

Rating: 10/10 (25 January 2005)

are one of the great movie couples of all time.
Carrey gave the best performance of the year. Winslet was also wonderful, but the movie really rests on Carrey's shoulders. Considering the hyperbolic screenplay it is absolutely astonishing and breathtaking the range of emotion Carrey is able to achieve.
No offense to Don Cheadle and Jamie Foxx, who were also very good, but this year the Oscar should have gone to Carrey.
Similar situation to the year John Malkovich wasn't nominated for Dangerous Liaisons. What a crime.
Michel Gondry's direction is also brilliant. I find it so depressing that a hacked-up, discontinuous, bland mainstream piece of junk like The Aviator has been recognized by the AMPAS this year while a difficult, genuine, coherent, brilliantly shot and edited piece like Eternal Sunshine has not.