Complex, intellectual, touching

Rating: 9/10 (1 December 2004)

If you hated Being John Malkovich and Adaption avoid this movie. If you love these movies you're in for a treat. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is complex as the other Kaufman flicks, intellectual as them but infinitely more touching. It is a philosophical meditation on the worth of memories. Yes, it is a film even more out of bounds than Being John Malkovich, masterly edited by the way, but it transports genuine feeling due to the fine acting by Jim Carrey (who I loathed in Liar, Liar), Kate Winslet (one of the ten best actresses of our time and maybe of the entire history of film) and Kirsten Dunst. Rent it, watch it, watch it again, watch it a third time, call your lover and say things you always wanted to say but were to shy to do it. After this movie you won't want to waste time any longer.