Memories, Like the Corners of My Mind

Rating: 9/10 (3 September 2010)

Michel Gondry's fabulous head trip stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet (superb) as members of an on-again off-again relationship who take part in an experiment that allows people to delete memories from their heads.
The question the film obviously asks is: would you get rid of painful memories if you could, or are those memories as much a part of you and your growth as the pleasant ones? Gondry finds a dazzling visual way to represent the deterioration of his protagonists' memories, and for all its cerebral sleights of hand, the film carries a big emotional wallop.
Winslet is dynamite and should have won the Oscar for which she was nominated.
Grade: A