EVERYBODY'S gotta learn sometime...

Rating: Null/10 (25 April 2004)

Jim Carrey stars as a man, recently dumped by his girlfriend (Kate Winslet), who has decided to delete his memories of the woman, just as she has done her memories of him. Unlike the good ol' days of alcohol induced amnesia though, they choose the modern way. Electronic brainwashing, courtesy of Lacuna Corp. (in the persons of Tom Wilkinson, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst and Elijah Wood). What follows is a predictably trippy Charlie Kaufman script, a trip through the vagaries of memory, intimacy and romance and how we come to understand the phenomenon of love in and out of the context of our experiences. In the hands of Michel Gondry (trippy video director, whose only previous feature (2001's Human Nature) was also a Kaufman collaboration), the film is a handheld tour through a melting dreamscape of disintegrating memories. Great writer! Great cast! Great director! A wonder to behold!